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...lost by three votes out of 3,000. He still talks about that defeat with a trace of anguish: "It was a heartbreaking election. It was the first and last time I ever ran for office." Harris learned his trade during nine years in the Elmo Roper polling organi zation. When he departed in 1956 to found Louis Harris & Associates, he took four Roper clients along with him - an unkindness that Elmo Roper has never forgiven. Today the Harris organization grosses roughly $700,000 a year, employs some 3,000 part-time interviewers, mostly women between...