Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are many varieties of polls in Iowa. Most of them put Ike in the lead, but show a high percentage of undecided voters. One of the most interesting is the Hawkeye Feed & Distributing Company's feedbag poll. Dealers are selling livestock feed in sacks labeled for the candidates, letting farmers choose. Results so far: Ike 53%, Stevenson...
...last twelve presidential elections, Idaho and the nation have gone the same way. This year the state has no other statewide political race to cause any side drafts on the presidential contest. A close look at the weather vane-through the eyes of the Associated Press poll of local editors and of the state's most experienced political observers-last week gave an indication of the late September wind direction: In Idaho, Ike Eisenhower seems to be ahead...
...overwhelming majority of the Political Science Department of Yale is in favor of Adlai Stevenson for president, according to a poll released yesterday by the Yale Daily News...
...Kingsland Macy, Long Island Republican leader who had fallen victim to a slow, painful purge at the hands of Gov. Thomas E. Dewcy; and there was also Merwin K. Hart, head of Washington's most munificent lobby, the Committee for Constitutional Government. After cigars, the group took a straw poll and found that of the twenty-eight present, only three would vote for Gen. Eisenhower in November. The others agreed that their party had moved so far to the left that they could no longer serve it in good faith...
This week the Texas Poll reported that Texans stood 51% for Stevenson, 43% for Eisenhower and 6% undecided. In Democratic Texas, that is a remarkable showing for a Republican nominee. With both the Republican and Democratic campaigns for Ike just beginning, he appeared to have a better chance of carrying Texas than any other southern state...