Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recession last spring, Democrats still made hay by labeling the G.O.P. as the Depression Party. But by last week, with signs of returned prosperity plain on all sides, the economic issue no longer cut so sharply into Republican chances. Thus, in hard-hit West Virginia, a Democratic poll taken last May showed 73% listing recession as the top political issue; this month the same poll showed recession tumbling to 49%-alongside the state's road-building program, at 48%. Similarly in New Jersey, Republican Senate Candidate Robert Kean's prospects have improved in startling proportion...
...Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs, the major league home run leader this season, topped the voting for the 1958 Associated Press major league all-star team named Thursday Banks was named by 160 of the 173 members of the Baseball Writers Assn. of America participating in the annual poll...
Local football followers will doubtless read with surprise this morning the results of this week's Associated Press football poll. Astonishing as it may seem, the so-called experts whose opinions are recorded by the A.P., have completely ignored the rightful claim of Harvard to be recognized as the best football team in the country...
Four out of five Protestant ministers in 17 Southern states are in favor of complying with the Supreme Court order to mix Negro and white children in public schools, according to the results of a poll published this week by the nondenominational monthly, Pulpit Digest...
Replies to the confidential poll were received from Southern ministers of 27 denominations-Baptists (31%), Methodists (27%) and Presbyterians (9%) predominating. Unsurprisingly, there was a wide regional range of opinion. Ministers in border states such as Delaware and West Virginia were almost unanimously in favor of integration. In Kentucky 89% were in favor, in Texas 87%, in the District of Columbia 86% and North Carolina 84%. In Arkansas and Mississippi only 54% were in favor of integration, and the least integrationist sentiment of all was in South Carolina, with only 50% in favor...