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...reasons for refusing to get excited. Few voters believed that there would be any contest on Election Day. Two out of three, according to a Gallup poll last week, thought New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey could not possibly be beaten. Moreover, the electioneering had not developed into the kind of nerve-jangling jihad to which the country had grown accustomed since...
...Journal conducted a coast-to-coast, Gallup-style poll of a cross-section of Americans on the delicate subject of what they believe and how much it matters to them. Among other things, the poll showed...
...Dies had little trouble getting yearly extensions and plenty of money. Although the opposition was fairly weighty, when matters came to the voting stage, Representatives were leary about going on record against a body that was out-theoretically, at least--to expose sin. And the voting public, as Dr. Gallup faithfully reported, was decidedly pro-Dies. Three out of every four had even heard of him, which was over-whelming evidence of the instinct for publicity he was to develop even further in his next five years on the roost...
...President regained his voice and some of his normal good humor at Los Angeles. He had a smidgin of good news. The Gallup Poll showed him way ahead in Minnesota and edging up in California...
Candidate Harry Truman put in a busy week, mapping his strategy. If he was to have a chance to win, his strategists decided, heroic measures were necessary. What they planned was perhaps the most strenuous campaign ever waged by an incumbent President. Cheered by a Gallup poll showing that the Dixiecrats commanded only 14% of Southern votes, Truman boldly scheduled an invasion of the South for mid-September. This would be followed by swings through New England, then the Pacific Coast and Southwest, lastly through the Midwest...