Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening the presidential poll season for 1960, George Gallup asked Democrats and Republicans who they favored for their own party nominations. Results: among Democrats. Tennessee's never-hear-die Senator Estes Kefauver (with 29%) led Massachusetts' eager Senator John Kennedy (23%); among Republicans, Vice President Richard Nixon easily outdistanced California's Senator William Knowland (48% to 12%). Last week Pollster Gallup began pairing the top Democrats against the top Republicans, got these answers...
...Last week the Gallup poll reported that Republican voters list their presidential preferences thus...
Just nine months after the smothering he got as Adlai Stevenson's running mate, durable Carey Estes Kefauver, 54, is the Democrat first in the hearts of his fellow Democrats for the 1960 presidential nomination, the Gallup poll reported last week. The order of Gallup-poll preference for 1960 (Adlai Stevenson, who has bowed out, was not listed...
...Price County, Wis., Gordon Johnson, who was a misfit at dairying, last week started work on his first glass-fiber boat in his new company. In Monroe County, Ohio, ministers sparked a countywide poll of the labor force, which helped attract a new Olin Mathieson aluminum plant. In Espanola. N. Mex., fruitgrowers were helped to build a plant to grade and pack their apples and peaches. In Choctaw County, Okla.. which was losing population in droves, a new cannery, a glove factory and a feed mill were established...
Newspapers and politicians admired the try, but almost to a man they gave Diefenbaker no chance. The Gallup poll forecast a Liberal walkaway. Instead, the Tories raised their hold on the House of Commons from 50 seats to 111 (including one member gained in a recent by-election). The Liberals were cut down from 167 to 105 members. Independents, plus the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (socialist) and the rightist Social Credit Party picked up 48, thus denying the Tories a majority...