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...mood of Canadian independence of the U.S. could also be seen in the results of a Gallup poll in which Canadians were asked whether they should become neutral in the Swiss tradition in the event of an atomic war between the West and East. While 58% lined up with the West. 42% were not so sure, and of these, 22% were actively for neutralism. Wrote Hugh MacLennan, one of Canada's top novelists, in the Toronto Star: "At the moment, the U.S. is considered a greater threat to world peace than Russia...
Even as Dwight Eisenhower's Republican Party was losing the 1960 election, 58% of the U.S. public, according to a Gallup poll taken in late October, approved of the way he was doing his job. Ike's popularity has averaged an astonishing 61% throughout his last year in office. By contrast, Harry Truman's popular backing in October...
...forecasting the photo finish, Pollster George Gallup bettered a 25-year record by coming within eight-tenths of a percentage point on the correct popular vote. John F. Kraft, a newcomer among the major pollsters, came within three points of the actual spread. The Princeton Research Service predicted a 52-48 percentage score in Kennedy's favor, although the final count was 50.2%-49.8%. Only Veteran Elmo Roper, who reported on election eve that Nixon looked to squeeze ahead by two percentage points, chose the wrong winner; yet even Roper claimed to "feel wonderful," because all such samplings allow...
Lest his customers think that he is throwing in the pencil, Gallup later declared that he would keep on polling right up to election time, warned nervously that voter opinion has a way of shifting in the closing days of a campaign, as Gallup sorrowfully learned...
...Gallup uses a sample of 7,000 in his final pre-election poll...