Word: gallup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weatherman, political forecasters have need for ultrasensitive barometers. Partisan winds can shift suddenly, quickening hopes in one camp, dashing dreams in the other. Poll Taker George Gallup's moistened finger has sensed a freshening Republican breeze that could promise more campaign thunder and lightning than the Democrats had predicted. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, Changing Campaign. And nowhere is a worrying Democrat more worried about changing political pressures than in California. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS' cover story, Just Plain...
Democratic politicians have been quietly but furiously shifting positions as they detected the new trends (TIME, Aug. 25). Last week Pollster George Gallup reported that a tide shift had come: for the first time since 1956, Republican fortunes are on the rise. The percentage of voters who want a Republican Congress has shifted from a low of 42% last May to 44%. The shift is only a bare 2%, and it shows that the Republicans have a long way to go. But it marks unmistakably the public awareness that conditions have changed, promises that the 1958 election can still...
...nation is much farther along in technological progress than it seemed in the flap after Sputnik I. ¶ President Eisenhower's decision to send U.S. troops to Lebanon diverted public attention from the Adams-Goldfine affair -and boosted the President's popularity with the voters. The Gallup poll reported last week that 58% of voters questioned said they approve of the way the President is handling his job, only 27% said they disapprove (15% had no opinion). Back in April a Gallup survey showed 49% approving, 35% disapproving...
With the Union expanding to 49 states to take in Alaska, more and more Americans want to bring in Hawaii to make it an even 50. So reports George Gallup, who polled the U.S. in the wake of the Alaska statehood fight, found 72% in favor of Hawaiian statehood compared to 65% in favor only five months ago. Sentiment was strongest in the West, but even the South, whose Congressmen have kept the Hawaiian statehood bill bottled up because of objections to Hawaii's racial mixtures, is a surprising 59% in favor...
...Stevenson backers who might begin to get that dizzy feeling, Gallup had some bad news: Vice President Richard Nixon's tour through Latin America (TIME, May 5, et seq.) boosted his political stock substantially, for the first time put him ahead of Democrat Stevenson in the "trial heat" popularity votes that Gallup kept on running between just about any possible pair of candidates from the two parties. In March Nixon got 47% against Stevenson's 53%; in the last poll Nixon drew 53% to Stevenson...