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DIED. George Gallup, 82, quintessential quantifier of American public opinion for more than five decades on issues ranging from toothpaste tastes to presidential preferences; of a heart attack; in Thun, Switzerland. An Iowa farm boy who grew restless on a summer job interviewing readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, he devised, for a Ph.D. thesis, sampling techniques that sought to account for the diversity of potential respondents; he put these techniques to work for newspapers, then for advertising...
Convinced that his methods were valid for political choices as well, Gallup boldly predicted in 1936 that the then dominant poll would be wrong in predicting victory for Republican Landon over Incumbent Roosevelt. Though Gallup would sometimes err, notably in 1948, when he picked Dewey over Truman, the weekly polls of his American Institute of Public Opinion and its imitators have put politicians and others in instantaneous, generally reliable contact with the public pulse and have permanently altered the conduct and the outcome of U.S. marketing and electioneering strategy...
...strike by longshoremen, called dockers by the British, came to symbolize a summer of discontent for the 58-year-old Prime Minister. Faced with an often violent, five-month-old coal miners' strike, economic setbacks and a series of political pratfalls, Thatcher seems surrounded by trouble. The latest Gallup poll, released last week, shows public support for the government at its lowest level since March 1982, before the Falklands war began: 37.5% favor Thatcher's Conservative Party, compared with 38.5% for Labor and 22% for the Liberal-Social Democratic Alliance. The government, recently declared the once supportive weekly...
...more than 50% of Americans still hold less than 5% of the elected political positions? The easy answer is that attitudes are slow to change. As recently as May 1983, a Gallup poll indicated that 16% of both men and women would oppose a qualified woman from their party for President. Hardly less important, though, is that men have clung to the machinery of politics. Various political-action committees donated $35 million to the last congressional elections, and $31 million of that went to incumbents. Of the little available to challengers, women got 7%. Click. -ByOttoFriedrich
Only five months ago, when Trudeau was still Prime Minister, Mulroney enjoyed a 48% to 36% lead over the Liberals. Just two weeks ago, however, a new Gallup poll showed Turner ahead...