Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wide 61% to 39% in July. Nixon came back to capture a 51 to 49 edge in September, just after his finger-wagging "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow. Since then, the two have seesawed back and forth, a few points apart. Gallup's latest poll showed Kennedy leading 52 to 48 in surveys conducted just after the blowup of President Eisenhower's trip to Japan. Said Gallup: "The outcome next fall may well be decided not so much by the campaigns as it will by changes in the world situation...
...Gallup poll, for example, gave Kennedy a 51-49 edge over Nixon before the summit collapse, now gives Nixon a 51-49 edge over Kennedy. Both men are able speechmakers and hardy campaigners, with youthful energy (Nixon is 47, Kennedy 43), and plenty of political talent. Each has a staff of bright, politically savvy young men to help out with the strategy and tactics. In terms of sheer political expertise on both sides, a Nixon v. Kennedy match could be one of the most fascinating and intellectual presidential campaigns in U.S. history...
...Eisenhower, too. In a week when the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Republican Governor of the nation's most populous state challenged him on foreign policy and national defense, when the Russians torpedoed the Geneva disarmament conference (see FOREIGN NEWS), and when the Gallup poll reported a sharp drop in his popularity (from 68% approval to 61%), Dwight Eisenhower announced that he was planning to go off to Newport, R.I. this week for a month's vacation...
Lubell's findings seemed to dovetail with the responses to a new Gallup poll, which asked the question: If a summit meeting is held next year, whom would you like to represent the U.S. as President? The answers...
...trash barrels on the curb after they have been emptied?). In Long Island's staid, old Garden City, observes Hofstra Assistant Sociology Professor William Dobriner, "they don't care whether you believe in God, but you'd better cut your grass." In close-by Levittown, a poll of householders some time ago showed that the No. 1 topic on people's minds was the complaint that too many dogs were running unleashed on the lawns. Topic No. 2 was the threat of world Communism...