Word: gallup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President regained his voice and some of his normal good humor at Los Angeles. He had a smidgin of good news. The Gallup Poll showed him way ahead in Minnesota and edging up in California...
Candidate Harry Truman put in a busy week, mapping his strategy. If he was to have a chance to win, his strategists decided, heroic measures were necessary. What they planned was perhaps the most strenuous campaign ever waged by an incumbent President. Cheered by a Gallup poll showing that the Dixiecrats commanded only 14% of Southern votes, Truman boldly scheduled an invasion of the South for mid-September. This would be followed by swings through New England, then the Pacific Coast and Southwest, lastly through the Midwest...
...boycotting was local, enthusiastic, uncoordinated, and made no claim to staying power. Even if the drive could be organized on a nationwide scale, housewives were not at all sure that they had the answer. But they were sure that somebody should do something. Last spring a Gallup poll showed the public strongly opposed to the return of controls. Last week Gallup reported that the nation now favored, by an amazing 56% to 35%, restoration of both price controls and rationing of many retail products...
...thunderclouds will bank up over the medium-sized cities of the South and Far West. Dewey's strongest support will come from prosperous men over 35; he will encounter the most opposition from young, lower-income voters, women and union members. Among the independents (whom Pollster George Gallup last fortnight estimated at 29% of the voting population), Candidate Dewey will just about hold...
Protestant churchgoers were asked by Gallup pollsters: Do you think it would or would not be a good thing for all Protestant churches in the United States to combine into one church? Last week Protestant leaders had a chance to measure the rank & file's enthusiasm for their slow march toward church unity...