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...nation's most famous pollster, George Gallup, employs randomization, requires a fifty-fifty balance between men and women. His interviewers follow assigned patterns in selecting persons to question. They may be told to seek out the youngest voting-age person in each household on the probability that this will reach a balance of age groups. They skip some corner houses on the theory that corner property is higher-priced and its occupants are likely to be more affluent than their neighbors...
...once-commanding margin, sent London stocks shooting ahead, caused bookmakers to revise their odds against the Tories from 2-1 to 6-4, moved Laborites to grumble about the effect of England's halcyon summer upon public sentiment. Labor took some comfort from the fact that the latest Gallup poll still found the Tories 6% behind, al though admittedly coming up, as the race entered the last stretch...
Wrong Pocket. In case anyone was concerned about his health, Johnson dug into a pocket for the report of a physical examination he had undergone after his nine-lap hike earlier in the week. Wrong pocket. "Whoops, that's the latest Gallup poll," he said. He dug deeper, came up with some figures from Pollster Elmo Roper showing that he was favored by 68% of U.S. women, 70% of those aged 21 to 34, 73% of the Catholics, 86% of the Negroes, 97% of the Jews. Finally he produced the medical report, signed by four physicians. "His exercise tolerance...
There is George Gallup's report that Lyndon Johnson is running ahead of Barry Goldwater 65% to 29% nationwide, with 6% undecided. Elmo Roper estimates that Lyndon is running ahead 56% to 26%, with the rest undecided. Oliver Quayle, a former associate of Lou Harris, shows Lyndon running ahead of Barry by 70% to 12% in Maine. A New York poll gives him 69% of the votes, a California sampling 64%, and the John P. Harris poll, run by a Kansas outfit, has him leading Barry 52 to 28 in that state. There are soft spots throughout the South...
What with the performances turned in by political polls this year, there is widespread skepticism about their findings. But they're interesting. This week the Gallup poll reported that President Johnson is the choice of 59% of the "likely voters" across the country, with 31% backing Barry Goldwater and 10% undecided. In the East, Johnson led with 70% to Goldwater's 19%, in the Midwest with 59% to Goldwater's 30% . In the Far West, on the conservative doorstep of Barry's own home country, Gallup found Lyndon out in front 62% to 33%. Only...