Word: polled
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...manager expected George Wallace to get 260,000 votes in the Wisconsin Presidential Primary. Consequently, political commentators face the same problem sports writers had with Cassius Clay. Like Clay, Wallace won a striking and unexpected victory, though in confusing circumstances: the Alabama Governor showed that a militant segregationist could poll a quarter of the votes cast in a Northern state...
Last week the Gallup poll reported that Lodge, stuck in Saigon, is the first choice of U.S. Republican voters. This was in sharp contrast to a similar poll taken before Lodge ran away with the New Hampshire primary on March 10. Then Lodge rated a poor third, behind former Vice President Richard Nixon and Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater. The latest Gallup findings...
Almost as interesting were the findings of the Field poll in California. Lodge is not even entered in the June 2 primary, and write-in votes are not counted in California. Yet the survey indicated that if California Republicans did have their choice, they would vote like this...
Since it takes longer to poll than to pundit, not until this week did the pollsters begin weighing in on the meaning of the New Hampshire presidential primary...
While many analysts had seen Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge's write-in victory as a deathly blow to Barry Goldwater's hopes for the G.O.P. nomination, the Gallup Poll indicated that the obits were premature. A post-New Hampshire nationwide poll of 1,840 Republican county chairmen-the hardcore politicians who either go, or help name most of the delegates, to national conventions-showed that Barry is still the favorite. The chairmen rated Richard Nixon as Goldwater's closest competitor. The tabulation...