Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There seemed little doubt that the election would be close, unless all the polls and the experts were wrong. Pollster Gallup gave Franklin Roosevelt a slight edge (51%) but had left himself plenty of room to get back off the limb. The FORTUNE survey, conducted by Elmo Roper, gave Candidate Roosevelt 53.5%, but it also pointed to the numerous imponderables that make poll-taking risky work in 1944. Some of them: 1) the soldier vote; 2) migrating war workers; 3) the difficulty of poll-taking under gas rationing; 4) the "silent vote." The one new development in the FORTUNE poll...
...Britain's latest Gallup poll showed that 35% of Britons favored continuance of the Coalition after the war, 26% wanted a Labor Government. 12% backed the Conservatives...
Gerald Nye's henchmen hurriedly tried to pooh-pooh this. But North Dakota is one state in which Tom Dewey needs little added help. Observers agree it is solidly Republican; the latest Gallup poll showed Tom Dewey leading...
...economics about making supply meet demand; 3) still elsewhere, Soap-Boxer McGee denounces citizens who do not avail themselves of the privilege of voting. Aside from these bits of propaganda, Heavenly Days is a thoroughly harmless little comic strip about Fibber & Molly's trip to Washington, and Dr. Gallup's search for America's Absolutely Average Man. Pleasant, corny performers with extremely experienced voices, the radio-famed McGees will doubtless roll up another million and a half dollars or so for RKO (at an outlay of some $450,000). Films such as theirs, fairly popular...
...becoming a wingless glittering generality as a fact of the pervasive ignorance of the majority of the American people in matters of their government's operation," stated Visiting Lecturer in Government, A. Palmer yesterday. Palmer, professor of Political Science at Kenyon College, near Columbus, Ohio, cited the recent Gallup poll showing that only a third of United States citizens know their senators are, and advocated scale adult political education by unions...