Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will face an issue never raised before. Last May, Pollster George Gallup took a reading on the question. Results: 81% of those interviewed said they would vote for a qualified candidate for President even if he were divorced; 14% said they would not. (At the same time, another Gallup poll showed that 70% said they would vote for a military man; 25% said they would...
...cameras (more than 70 were deployed) caught some memorable pictures-the proud profile of Keynoter Douglas MacArthur; the hand of defeated Bob Taft, which, like a numbed limb, remained outstretched long after his handshake with Ike; the small drama of eager hands passing a microphone along during a delegation poll...
...pols well know, polls have been wrong. But they have been right far more often. And the Gallup poll has never been anywhere near so wrong as this one would be if Taft were, in fact, as strong a Republican figure...
...uncommitted delegates are waiting for actual poll results. All of them, however, are carefully testing the candidates' effect on public opinion. They listen to the sharp exchanges on the Texas delegation steal, read the speeches and watch Taft and Ike on TV. The delegates know that they can pick a nominee at Chicago without reference to what the people want. But the delegates also know that only the people can pick a President...
Last week the Gallup poll issued the latest and most significant of many samplings, all showing that Ike will draw more votes than Taft. Gallup matched Taft and Ike each separately against Estes Kefauver and Adlai Stevenson. Results...