Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once again, the U.S. had passed through that heady season when national blood pressure shoots up, politicians talk like fishwives, red-eyed poll takers are on the prowl, civil war rages at the dinner table, and the uninitiated observer concludes that the Union cannot endure much longer. Once again, the U.S. had survived...
...filed by sex and there are no "women's precincts." But in traditionally pro-labor districts of Indiana, for example, election officials opened voting machines at noon "for repairs," found Ike leading after a heavy morning's vote by women. In Pawtucket, R.I., a Democratic poll-watcher cast his eye over long lines of women waiting to vote on election morning and commented: "Republican women always come out early. The only thing is that this time there are twice as many Republican women...
...majority of U.S. newspaper editors, Eisenhower's victory came as no surprise; in an A.P. poll before the election, U.S. editors predicted that Ike would win by a comfortable margin. It did come as a surprise to many of the campaign correspondents and the pundits, whose own personal attraction to Adlai Stevenson seemed to have fooled them into believing the voters thought that way too. Day after election, reporters and editors settled down to do a competent job of reporting and interpreting the results...
...poll results upheld our reasons for showing it," Wagner said...
...effects of the film. These are: a pamphlet on the propaganda aspects, to be distributed to patrons as they enter; a short explanatory speech before the showing; and a questionnaire afterwards to judge the actual effect on the audience. Peter Rossi, assistant professor of Social Relations, will administer the poll...