Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...required to go to the people every five years -sooner if he thinks the time propitious. The Tories' five-year deadline is next May, but the betting is that Harold Macmillan will call an election in October or November. Reason: he is riding high. Last week a Gallup poll showed the Tories with a 590 edge over Labor, a gain of 2% in the past month...
Adding a surprising tidbit to the intraparty race was a mailing poll conducted by Jet Magazine among 200 of the G.O.P.'s leading Negroes, who might be expected to back Rocky because of good works done over the years by family philanthropies. But Nixon took 81.7% to Rockefeller...
Near week's end, Rockefeller aides let it be known that Rocky had not said it all at Puerto Rico; that the Governor well realized that there is only one true and final poll on the presidency: the general election. Nelson Rockefeller prepared to make his position clearer...
...said Gallup in still another poll, has slipped back by 3% in the last month to flat out (26% each) with Adlai Stevenson...
...hero's welcome at the U.D.N. convention, then change to sloppy clothes and two-day beard and set out to improve his great following among Brazilian workers. Said he: "Marshal Lott is a distinguished patriot, but to become President it is also necessary to be popular." A recent poll in Brazil's 20 state capitals showed 72% for Quadros, 18% for Lott...