Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallup polls indicate that Coldwell's strength is much greater than his party's showing in the House (eleven members); the strength of the party in provincial elections confirms it. Commons hears C.C.F. Leader Coldwell's sharp criticism of the old order uneasily, but hears him to the end, because the members know that his are the points they must eventually answer to the voters...
...major party on the Canadian political scene is the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation which, according to the latest Gallup poll (Dec. 4, 1943), would divide the popular vote with the old-line parties (Liberals, 31%; Progressive Conservatives, 29%; C.C.F., 26%), might even ride into power...
...Parliament he has painstakingly and in great detail laid down the wartime record of his Government. But in the chamber which he has so often used as a sounding board, he has not yet stated a national issue to offset the declining popularity of his Government. As the Gallup polls show, his administration, like all other wartime governments, now suffers the usual political reaction to regimentation and control...
...spite of the pronouncements of Socialist Leader Coldwell and his Rightist opposite numbers, the question of membership in the Pan American Union was still largely academic to most Canadians. A Gallup poll last week showed that of the few who had heard of the Pan American Union, 84% favored the Dominion joining it. Seventy-two per cent had never heard...
...people so far this winter, reports Pollster George Horace Gallup. With several winter months to go, it may pass the 25% mark set in the 1940-41 season. In the last half of December 1943, colds passed the former Gallup-polled peak of February 1942, by 40%. During the two-week Christmas period of Dec. 17-30, a quarter of the population had colds. All in all, 66% of the U.S. people have suffered either from colds or from flu since the winter began...