Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles Knight, Cambridge coordinator for the poll, said yesterday the group plans freedom booths in the Harvard Square area at the Cambridge Central Library and possibly at the Harvard-Epworth Church...
...straw poll is intended to be completely open, although CNPA had voted in September to direct a write-in campaign for McCarthy, Sterne said. The courts' failure to make write-ins clearly legal doomed that effort and it was too late to form a fourth party, Sterne added...
...thirds of the students voting in a college-wide straw poll conducted yesterday indicated that, given the chance, they would vote for Hubert Humphrey if they were old enough. Students who said that they would not vote edged out those indicating a preference for Richard Nixon, with about ten per cent of the vote in each category. Nearly 3000 students--about 50 per cent of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates--responded to the poll. Eldridge Cleaver, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate, came in fourth with five per cent of the vote, followed by Eugene McCarthy, who received about four per cent...
...poll, taken in all Harvard and Radcliffe dining halls, showed Nixon's total dwarfed by the combination of the others. The Republican nominee drew his greatest strength from five Houses--Eliot, Winthrop, Quincy, Lowell, and Kirkland. Cleaver's strongest support came from Dudley, Adams and Dunster. He decisively defeated Nixon in the first...
...poll results contrast sharply with the 1960 CRIMSON university-wide poll, in which Nixon received 39 per cent of the votes--30 per cent more than this year, while John F. Kennedy '40 got 56 per cent. In 1960 only five per cent did not choose major party candidates, while this year that figure has risen to about 25 per cent. 1960 was the first year in memory that a Democrat received an absolute majority in the poll...