Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallup poll, measuring the effect of Henry Wallace's candidacy on the popular vote this week, found it almost nil. The pollsters reported that, if the election were held now with Henry in the race, Harry Truman would beat Tom Dewey (46% to 41%) and would wallop Bob Taft (51% to 31%). They also reported that Ike Eisenhower, with no help from Henry, would defeat the President, 47% to 40%. (In none of the three trial heats did Wallace get more than 8% of the vote...
...York, Pollster George Gallup reported, Wallace would now get between 13% and 18% of the total vote, depending on which Republican ran against Harry Truman.* In Massachusetts, a Boston Globe straw vote gave Wallace 11% of the total and made the state "a 50-50 proposition" for the G.O.P. for the first time since Calvin Coolidge...
Brazilians are the world's most Godfearing people; Frenchmen the least. The U.S. has only a few more atheists and agnostics than Australia or Canada. These too-sweeping generalities might have been deduced last week from a Gallup poll...
These donations should be credited to a sizable segment of the whole U.S. press-for TIME'S story was merely the most recent of a long series of such articles. Regional newspapers like the Gallup (N. Mex.) Independent had long been recording facts about the Navajos-especially since 1933, when the Government crippled the Navajos' crude economy based on sheep-raising by ordering them-because of overgrazing and the resultant soil erosion-to begin doing away with their flocks...
...Democrats unwrapped an early Christmas package last week. Pollster George Gallup reported that in the key states of Pennsylvania (35 electoral votes) and Ohio (25) the Democrats are leading 51% to 49%. But the Republicans were still doing most of the political caroling...