Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the Eisenhower victory, however, only seven of Pennsylvania's delegates could be firmly counted for Ike. Two were for Taft (who got a record 172,829 write-in votes in the preference poll), and the rest had to be listed as uncommitted. Reason: the presidential preference vote is just "eyewash" to the Pennsylvania politicos. The key man now is Governor John S. Fine, who will control 32 of the delegates. He wasn't saying where his votes will go, but he did not seem overly impressed by the primary result. Said he: "Election returns speak what partisans...
...Massachusetts primary, the University produced its own Presidential nominations, giving Governor Adlai Stevenson an overwhelming lead on the Democratic ballot and General Dwight D. Eisenhower a sweeping victory on the Republican side in the Harvard Liberal Union Presidential Poll...
Voting privileges in today's University-wide presidential primary have been extended to a number of faculty members, poll director Frank A Rhuland '54 announced last night...
Sponsored by the Harvard Liberal Union, the poll had previously been limited to students in the College, Law, and Business schools, but a plan worked out last week will enable the H.L.U. to poll faculty members eating in the Faculty Club at lunch and dinner today...
...addition of faculty votes will make this a much more important poll, in that we will be getting the opinion of the entire Harvard community, rather than merely-the student body;" Rhuland commented. However, it will be a limited sample of the faculty, because only a small proportion eats in the Faculty Club...