Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With over half of the CRIMSON's mail-poll ballots returned from Faculty members in the College and all graduate schools, the Democratic nominees edge has already surpassed that of Adlai Stevenson in 1956. By noon yesterday, Kennedy had 277 votes to Nixon's 117, with 12 undecided...
...politically pivotal state of Michigan (20 electoral votes), a Detroit News poll of voters gave Kennedy the lead over Nixon by 52.7% to 46.4%. Among Roman Catholics, Democrat Kennedy drew 79.7% of the vote, and Democratic Senatorial Incumbent Pat McNamara got nearly as much, while Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate John Swainson (a Protestant) got 69.6%-in short, a difference of 10% between Democratic candidates of different religions...
Thin Slices One key question for 1960: How much of Dwight Eisenhower's overwhelming 1956 margin can Dick Nixon hang on to? Last week the Gallup poll cut the question into thin, categorical slices with these results...
About dinnertime I answered the phone to hear, "This is a presidential election poll. As of now, which candidate would you vote for, Nixon or Kennedy?" I asked the caller to name the organization she represented, and the reply was, "A presidential poll." When I asked which one, the reply was, "I don't know...
RELIGION. The problem has passed its peak, but, says Bobby, "it could peak again." Hard-boiled Kennedyites run a continual poll on the Catholic vote, know that Jack's confrontation by the Houston Protestant ministers (TIME, Sept. 26) helped them with Nixon-minded Northern Catholics-and know that a fall-off of interest in religion will weaken them in the same area. Bobby plans to show a film of Jack Kennedy's session with the Houston clergy in every state...