Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallup pollsters reported that U.S. parents consider boys easier to raise than girls. Reasons: boys require less attention and clothes, have fewer social problems, are apt to be less temperamental...
Canadians know whom they want for their next Prime Minister, though they don't know when they will get him. In a Gallup poll last week, External Affairs Minister Louis Stephen St. Laurent and Justice Minister James Lorimer Ilsley were tied for first place. Professional politicians quickly ruled out Ilsley; he would be a political liability, they held, because as a wartime Finance Minister he could be blamed for high wartime taxes. Their money was on St. Laurent of Quebec...
Pollster George Gallup investigated the Eisenhower-for-President boom this week. Asked whether Ike is a Republican or a Democrat, 22% of those polled said they thought he was a Republican, 20% a Democrat, 58% said they did not know. (But if Ike wants to run in 1948 it will obviously have to be as a Republican; Harry Truman has the Democratic nomination sewed up.) Asked if they would like to see Ike a presidential candidate, the replies were: yes, 35%; no, 48%; did not know...
After ten years of milking the average American of his opinions and then selling them back to him, operators of the Gallup poll plunged into their files to discover the sort of fellow with whom they had been doing business. This week they published the results...
...Stassenites were not perturbed by the fact that many in the U.S. thought of them as impractical zealots, or that Stassen's Gallup poll rating had sunk in the last 15 months from 34% to 15%. They listened with patient and slightly puzzled expressions to a question-&-answer joke which politicians of both parties were happily repeating among themselves...