Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before election, the Gallup poll gave Dewey 49.5% of the total vote, Truman 44.5%. On the day after election, red-faced Dr. George H. Gallup had two alibis: "Truman recaptured many votes from Wallace. Also, a lot of the 'undecided voters' in the poll voted for Truman." Poll-taking, he added, was still "an infant science...
Beyond exploding the "public opinion" of Roper and Gallup, Tuesday's balloting seemed to repudiate the widely-accepted thesis that the United States was bound to enter a period of conservatism. This was shown as much by the scores of Congressional turnovers as by the victory of President Truman. Where the Senate had Curley Brooks, Joe Ball, and Tom Stewart, it now has Paul Douglas, Hubert Humphrey, and Estes Kefauver. The House has similarly changed...
...reasons for refusing to get excited. Few voters believed that there would be any contest on Election Day. Two out of three, according to a Gallup poll last week, thought New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey could not possibly be beaten. Moreover, the electioneering had not developed into the kind of nerve-jangling jihad to which the country had grown accustomed since...
...Journal conducted a coast-to-coast, Gallup-style poll of a cross-section of Americans on the delicate subject of what they believe and how much it matters to them. Among other things, the poll showed...
...Dies had little trouble getting yearly extensions and plenty of money. Although the opposition was fairly weighty, when matters came to the voting stage, Representatives were leary about going on record against a body that was out-theoretically, at least--to expose sin. And the voting public, as Dr. Gallup faithfully reported, was decidedly pro-Dies. Three out of every four had even heard of him, which was over-whelming evidence of the instinct for publicity he was to develop even further in his next five years on the roost...