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Three Republican presidential prospects -Dwight Eisenhower, Earl Warren and Robert Taft-are running ahead of Harry Truman in public popularity, the Gallup poll reported last week. The poll's method was to ask voters to express a choice between Truman and each of the three. Ike led Truman 64% to 28%(rest undecided) Warren ran 55-33 ahead of Truman. Taft's margin was narrow...
Pollster George Gallup asked for the presidential choices of 2,774 G.O.P. county chairmen. Of the 1,727 who replied, 1,027 favored Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft. General Dwight Eisenhower ran a poor second with 375. This was in sharp contrast to the most recent Gallup poll of general public sentiment, which showed Ike running first among Republican and Democratic voters, with Harry Truman second, MacArthur third and Taft fourth (TIME, Nov. 12). A majority of the G.O.P. county chairmen now for Taft said that they do not think Ike will be a candidate...
...press doing a good job in telling the news to readers? A poll of newspaper copy desk chiefs by George Gallup showed that it is doing "a pretty poor...
...polls have shown, wrote Gallup in this week's New York Times Magazine, that a third of American adults do not know that Dean Acheson is Secretary of State. In one series of questions (Where is Manchuria? Formosa? What is the 38th parallel? The Atlantic pact? Who is Chiang Kaishek? Tito?), almost a fifth of the people asked couldn't answer a single one. Most of them, said he, had exaggerated ideas of the power of A-bombs, thought a few could erase a whole nation, and thus had no idea of the cost...
...blame for such ignorance, said Gallup, can be leveled chiefly at the people themselves. They "have become so bent on entertainment that anything which doesn't fit easily and unconsciously into this groove tends to be ignored. The old-fashioned idea that everyone should keep 'abreast of the times' apparently has lost much of its earlier appeal." But Gallup raised a pertinent question for the press. Have editors "lost a sense of mission" and begun to worry too much, he asked, "about having the most popular comic strips and the most complete sports pages, and too little...