Word: gallup
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Irving R. Murray '36, Thomas H. Quinn '36, and A. Gilman Sullivan '36 make up the Harvard team which will uphold the negative side. Lieutenant Governor Joseph L. Hurley will act as chairman and the judges will be Dana T. Gallup, William H. Hitchcock, and Henry T. Lummus, justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts...
Early last autumn Mr. Hurja made a trip to Manhattan to lunch with Dr. George Gallup. For several years Dr. Gallup had been taking polls for businessmen, particularly advertisers & publishers, who wanted to find out the preferences, buying and reading habits of the public. His method, adapted from scientific research, was to sample a section of the public big enough to be statistically accurate, representative enough to include day-laborers, skilled workers, farmers, white-collar employes, millionaires, etc. in the same proportions in which they are found in the population at large. Mr. Hurja was interested because Dr. Gallup...
Interesting point about Democrat Hurja's prediction about the South and West is that the Gallup poll, which at present is probably as accurate a sample of public sentiment as is available, appears to confirm it in general...
Since cotton and tobacco farmers are on the whole devoted to AAA, the Democratic South should certainly be solid this year. The Gallup poll shows that section of the country to be stronger than any other area for Roosevelt. Thus Mr. Hurja properly counts 146 electoral votes from 13 Southern states...
...West he is on more questionable ground. Of the 18 states in that area, the Gallup poll classifies Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, Missouri, with 93 electoral votes, as "Definitely Democratic." Thus Mr. Hurja might compose a table...