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After all the ups-and-downs counting of the 1958 elections, the Gallup poll this week found Democrats favoring a party leader who had barely participated in the campaign. Indeed, Two-Time Loser Adlai Stevenson's following increased impressively over last June, when the pollsters took a pre-election look at 1960 presidential preference. The leaders, then and now, among Democratic voters...
Checking last spring on the 1960 presidential preferences of Republican voters, the Gallup poll found Vice President Richard Nixon the far-and-away leader, with 64% against only 9% for the runner-up, California's Senator William Knowland. Checking again last week, in the wake of the 1958 elections, the pollsters found a far more imposing Nixon roadblock in New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. The new listing...
...South's orators may rant at the Supreme Court, but Southerners generally recognize the consequences of court rulings, indicated Pollster George Gallup last week. Gallup found that 52% of white Southerners now feel integration will inevitably come, compared to 43% when the same question was asked 14 months ago. But while they believe integration is inevitable. Southerners also predict it will not come easily: whereas 14 months ago 51% of whites thought tension between races would worsen, 59% are now of that opinion...
...position was clearly untenable. Keeping things bipartisan means keeping them out of the electorate's reach. To deplore debate and ignore criticism is to rise above the tests of rationality; it is to rule by fiat rather than by consent. The State Department is not to be run by Gallup Polls, of course, but to hold that any policy is altogether above the clash of political parties is to deny it democratic legitimation...
Another obstacle to satire, Vidal noted, is that our leaders, unlike those of some other countries, "are to a man innocent of civilization." During a short White House job, Vidal "found that the Great Golfer read only westerns, and his staff reads Gallup polls...