Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Preliminary tallies indicated last night that more than 7,000 University students voted yesterday in the CRIMSON's election poll. The last ballot box was collected at-Radcliffe at 10 p.m. last night to round out the totals...
...poll-taker's error resulted in potentially unfair conditions for balloting yesterday at the Union, as names of voters at the noon meal were not recorded on a freshman class list. The CRIMSON, accordingly, will hold further balloting at noon today for freshmen who voted yesterday at luncheon and were not recorded...
...Statistical sampling methods were employed, and this fact doubtless accounts in part for a Republican bias in the poll's 1952 returns. According to the voters' claims, those polled went 389 for Eisenhower, and 218 for Stevenson. This would give Eisenhower 64.1 per cent, although he actually drew only 56.1 percent in the precinct. Another explanation for this discrepancy, shown in some previous national polls, is a tendency to claim to have voted with the winning side on the part of people whose memories are hazy, or who actually did not vote...
...CRIMSON is also distributing a double post-card poll to 900 faculty members with permanent appointments. Returns from this poll should be available for publication by the beginning of next week...
...Faculty poll similarly seeks information on preference, whether or not the individual switched his vote over 1952, and what branch of the Faculty he serves...