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GEORGIAN A M. KENNEDY Gallup...
...President of the U.S.? Massachusetts' Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a Roman Catholic, is the acknowledged front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 and intends to push the question to a positive answer. Last week, after sampling the opinions of 9,000 voters of all religions, the Gallup poll gave Jack Kennedy some new answers to ponder. Findings...
...Catholic's chances are better than they used to be. In 1940 Gallup first posed the question: "If your party nominated a generally well-qualified man for President, and he happened to be a Catholic, would you vote for him?" Comparative answers...
...year when religion was a big national political issue, Quaker Herbert Hoover soundly defeated Al Smith, a Catholic, by more than 6,000,000 votes, and seven states (Florida, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas. Virginia) split from the Solid South to vote Republican. The Southern trend, according to Gallup...
More than half of all Catholics would be willing to jump party lines to vote for a candidate of their own faith. Asking Catholics alone if they might vote for a Catholic of a political party other than their own, Gallup got these results...