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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of people who think something like that about the Korean war may be larger than Candidate Stevenson thinks. This week Elmo Roper's public-opinion poll published the following results of what percentage of Americans agree with the following statements on what the U.S. should do in Korea...
Probably more significant than either of the "which party" polls were the results of the specific-issue poll reported by Gallup this week. His interviewers asked voters: "Which presidential candidate . . . do you think could handle the Korean situation best?" The results...
This is a gain of 3% for the Republicans and a loss of 3% for the Democrats since Gallup took the first poll on the question three weeks earlier. The Republican lead, however, is not as great as the lead Gallup gave Tom Dewey at the corresponding point of the 1948 presidential campaign...
George Gallup continued to point out that his average error on election polls has been 3.4 percentage points. And he was careful to note that in 1948 most of the "undecided" voters finally went to the Democratic side. But even after all the rules of caution are observed, the Republicans' 6% gain in the party poll and Eisenhower's overwhelming margin on the vital Korean war issue are important straws in the September political wind...
...Vice Presidency. Hicks Griffiths, Soapy and Moody swung Michigan to Estes Kefauver after the first ballot. This, too, proved to be a disastrous piece of political miscalculation. On the third ballot, Michigan scrambled on to Stevenson's bandwagon. Said Hicks Griffiths sadly, as he answered to the poll of the delegation: "I give up. Stevenson...