Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agreed. A squad of New York Times-men, circulating among the crowds at Newton's National Plowing Contest, came forth with the information that "10.6% of those who said they voted for General Eisenhower in 1952 now say they will shift in November.'' A farmers-only poll in Iowa released this week by Hallaces' Farmer and Iowa Homestead shows 43% for Stevenson, 35% for Eisenhower, 22% undecided (in July, the same poll showed Ike 49%. Adlai 32%, undecided...
...grab onto Senator Warren Magnuson's flying coattails in Washington-and the industrial Northeast, where Pennsylvania looked especially important to the political swarms that were heading its way. That the Stevenson campaign still faced a steep uphill climb was evidenced by last week's Gallup poll, showing Ike still ahead of Adlai by 52% to 41%, with 7% undecided. For all the talk of farm revolt and G.O.P. disaster, Adlai Stevenson had not yet gained a single percentage point on Dwight Eisenhower since the poll published two weeks earlier...
...quadrennial poll of where U.S. newspapers stand editorially on the presidential candidates, Editor & Publisher last week totted up a sampling from half the nation's dailies...
...poll of 150 Negro teachers in South Carolina clearly shows their apprehension concerning desegration in that state. Almost three-quarters of them thought there would be considerable job displacement. And when asked how Negro teachers would vote on desegration in a secret ballot, only 23.8 percent said they would vote for it. Furthermore, 80 percent said that with integration there would be new ways to stop equality in pay and other privileges. The group was evenly divided on whether or not they would prefer to work in a desegregated system...
...voted against the Mundt-Nixon anti-subversive bill and against funds for the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He also voted for aid to Greece and Turkey in their fight against Communism, for the establishment of the Voice of America and for an unsuccessful bill to outlaw state poll taxes. "We thank God for Javits," exulted a Democratic leader, "because in a tight spot we can almost always count on him for another vote." But some Republican leaders grasped an essential point: a Representative is primarily an ambassador from his district. One time Javits came forward apologetically to explain...