Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the Gallup poll came up with two fearful statistics: though in four months more U.S. adults than ever before will be liable for some form of Federal income tax, 77% of them do not know today how much they will have to pay, or think they will owe nothing. Moreover, 75% of them (in the lower brackets, 85%) have not started saving ahead for their taxes...
Surprise. As in the wartime election of 1918, when Democrats made pre-election claims of gains only to lose the House, the election confounded most politicos and analysts. Perhaps the most surprised was Dr. George H. Gallup, whose American Institute of Public Opinion had predicted that Democrats would, at the very least, lose just one House seat and that they might even gain 19. Dr. Gallup blamed it on the low turnout of voters: he had counted on 30,000,000, but only 26,000,000 went to the polls, All signs had pointed to apathy...
...free peoples to frame a Federal Constitution under which they may unite in a Democratic World Government?" Vote in favor of Democratic World Federation: 140,967. Against: 46,882. The fact that most of the local politicians running for office had opposed the referendum seems to prove Dr. Gallup's thesis: the public is usually far ahead of its political "leaders" in its thinking on most issues. Harvard Committee for Federal Union...
...Republicans, out of office, had fewer officially famous men to sound the tocsin in their behalf. Their candidates had to campaign with less Olympian aid. Nevertheless, the Gallup poll showed them winning somewhere between five and 25 seats in the House...
...were asking for more help from Franklin Roosevelt for their candidate for Governor, John J. Bennett. The New York Daily News's poll showed Republican Thomas E. Dewey leading even in usually Democratic New York City, gave Dewey a 59%-to-36% lead in the State. (A semifinal Gallup poll gave Dewey the advantage, 51%-to-41%, but showed a Bennett comeback.) In Massachusetts, Republicans now felt certain that their handsome Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. would beat off the threat of determined Congressman Joseph E. Casey (still waiting for a Roosevelt blessing...