Word: gallup
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...Knowland has a long way to go, reported the Gallup poll this week. Asked whether they would "personally prefer" Dick Nixon or Bill Knowland as the G.O.P. presidential nominee in 1960, Republican voters replied: Nixon 63%, Knowland 23%, don't know 14%. But even more indicative: of Republican voters polled, only 2% said they did not know Nixon, 28% said they did not know Knowland...
...Youth Vote: In 1952 voters between the ages of 21 and 29 gave Eisenhower-Nixon 49% of their vote, upped it in 1956 to 57%. Said Gallup: this shift is significant because 8,600,000 adults have reached voting age since 1952, and more are coming fast...
...morning after election, the Democrats needed no pollster to tell them that the Republicans had cut heavily into long-standing Democratic voting strongholds. But just how heavily, Pollster George Gallup got around to reporting last week. Items...
...Negro Vote: In 1952 the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket polled 21% of the Negro vote, in 1956 upped the figure to an astonishing 39%. But lest the G.O.P. start kidding itself about an irreversible trend, Gallup reported that Negroes generally used the word "Eisenhower" when they liked what the party did, used the word "Republicans" when they damned...
FOREIGN RELATIONS People's Mood On the general subject of foreign aid the mood of the American people is far more free-spending than the mood of the U.S. Congress. Just before President Eisenhower proposed his Middle Eastern resolution, the Gallup poll asked coast-to-coast whether the U.S. should or should not keep on spending its recent average of $4 billion a year on foreign aid. Result: in favor, 58%; against, 28%; no opinion, 14%. Pro-foreign aid sentiment, Gallup reported, cut cleanly across party lines-59% of Republicans, 59% of Democrats, 58% of independents...