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...Gallup's survey showed Richard Nixon defeating both Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy for the presidency. If the election took place at the time of the poll, Nixon would win, Gallup said, by two points over Humphrey and by five points over McCarthy. The sampling suggested that Nelson Rockefeller would merely tie Humphrey and defeat McCarthy by one percentage point of the vote...
POLITICAL poll taking in recent years has proved considerably more reliable than oneiromancy, haruspication or the casting of rune stones. George Gallup has erred in his election polls by only 1.5% since 1954. Yet last week, Gallup and Louis Harris published such divergent interpretations of the preconvention G.O.P. standings that Gallup's son and partner, George Jr., admitted that the psephologists were facing "a credibility-gap problem...
Just as the candidate played ping-pong last week with the Harris and Gallup popularity polls, they are playing this week with the AP, UPI, and CBS delegate polls...
Amidst the confusion of contradictory Gallup and Harris polls, and with a totally uncontroversial platform in the works, the Grand Old Party is preparing to open its 1968 convention in Miami Beach, Florida...
Just one day after the Gallup poll showed Richard Nixon to be stronger against either Hubert Humphrey or Eugene McCarthy than is Nelson Rockefeller, the Harris poll published the opposite results. Later, in a joint statement, the two pollsters defended themselves and each other, and suggested that Rockefeller was ahead and gaining steadily with the people...