Word: gallup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, Gallup announced the results of his path-pointing poll, which turned on three key political questions...
...counsel. Said he: "I could devoutly wish that there were some method by which the American people could, under the circumstances, point out the path of my true duty. But it appears that this is a question that first I alone must answer." Undeterred by the "but," Pollster George Gallup saw his own duty, and set out to satisfy the President's yearning...
...approve or disapprove of the way Eisenhower is handling his job as President?'' Results: approve, 77%; disapprove, 13%; no opinion, 10%. This was the second highest rating (highest: 79% after the Summit conference last August; lowest: 57% after the 1954 congressional elections) that the Gallup poll had recorded for Dwight Eisenhower since he became President...
...Great Depression made a minority out of the Republican Party-and kept it that way for many a year. In November 1951, the Gallup poll found that 37% of the voters thought the nation's economic future was safest in the hands of the Democrats, while only 29% believed that prosperity could best be had under the Republicans. This public attitude in 1952 was outweighed by Dwight Eisenhower's personal popularity, but in that campaign the most effective Democratic slogan, "Don't let 'em take it away," harked back to Depression memories. As late as November...
Last week the Republicans moved ahead on the Gallup question: "Which party can best keep America prosperous?" The breakdown: Republican 38%, Democratic 34% (no difference or no opinion 28%). This indicates a basic shift in voter atti tudes, which is the Republican Party's best hope for 1956-if Ike does...