Word: gallup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average reaction of U.S. citizens, 07 when Harry Truman became President, was "My God!" Then his reassuring manner and quick decisions sent his stock skyrocketing. Only a few months after he took office, a Gallup poll showed that 87% of the people approved of the way he was handling his job. Even F.D.R. had never Galluped to that high point, This week Gallup reported its latest poll. Mr.Truman's score with the voters...
...George Gallup's pollsters indicated this week that Democratic strength was at its lowest point in 16 years. The majority of independent and partisan voters, said Gallup, favored the Republicans. The majority said the President was doing a bad job, would not vote for him if this were a presidential election year. Both thought the Republicans could best handle the problems the U.S. faces today...
With election day less than four weeks away, the pollsters came in last week with their first reports. Three Gallup polls made considerable news. The first reported that 53% of U.S. citizens think that price controls should be taken off meat (see The Administration). That was enough to tell any politician that the Republicans were on the beam with the public...
...Institute picked as discussion leaders such editors as the New York Times's Turner Catledge, the Cleveland Press's Louis B. Seltzer, the Louisville Courier-Journal's James Pope. Among scheduled guest lecturers: the C.I.O.'s black-haired James B. Carey and opinion samplers George Gallup and Elmo Roper...
...heels of the Liberal Party's defeat in the Pontiac by-election (TIME Sept. 30) the Gallup poll reported: if a federal election were held now the Liberals would get 41% of the votes cast...