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...Gallup poll last week focused attention on a baffling and important segment of U.S. voters, the independents, who make up 28% of the electorate. The results...
This week Gallup reported on sectional polls of all voters Dwight Eisenhower is running ahead of Tom Dewey's 1948 vote, with his biggest gains west of the Mississippi and in the South. In every section outside the South, Ike is running ahead of Stevenson, even when the undecided are allocated 3-1 in favor of the Democrats. Gallup's results (after the 3-1 allocation...
...cases, Gallup found that Ike is running ahead of the Republican Party. When the voters were asked "which party" they wanted to win, eliminating the candidates' names, the G.O.P. ran five points behind Ike in the South, two to four points behind him elsewhere. Gallup's conclusion: "The hope of a Republican victory now rests almost entirely on Ike's personal popularity...
...Gallup's report seemed to be good omens for Ike Eisenhower. But remembering the late shift of voters in 1948 and the polls' failure, no one thought the conclusion was foregone...
Favorable to Republican hopes as most of these polls seemed, they were no solid forecast of Republican victory in November. The Republicans, warned Pollster George Gallup last week, had failed to convince the average voter that they had his interests at heart. (Asked which party they thought better "for people like yourself," 48% of those Gallup polled named the Democratic Party, only 31% the Republican Party.) "G.O.P. hopes," said Gallup, "must be pinned almost entirely on the personal popularity of General Eisenhower." Last week Ike was still running ahead of the Republican Party as a whole, but his voter strength...