Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gallup poll bore dismal tidings. Where Richard Nixon led Humphrey by a scant 2% before his nomination as the G.O.P. presidential candidate, last week he had opened up a huge 16% margin, with 45% to Hubert's 29%. Humphrey aides pointed out, correctly, that even Barry Goldwater's polled popularity spurted dramatically immediately after his nomination, from 21% to 36%. All the same, the findings gave Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy's supporters an opportunity to proclaim that the Vice President was "not electable...
...winning it were all but destroyed by the tough mood of the delegates in the wake of Russia's thrust into Czechoslovakia. Said Rhode Island's Senator Claiborne Pell: "The triumph of the hawks of the Kremlin has strengthened the hawks in Chicago." A Louis Harris poll showed that Americans opposed a unilateral bombing halt, 61 to 24, and a coalition government...
Error Margin. To justify the apparent turnabout, Gallup suggested that the timing of the poll taking was crucial. Gallup's sampling was made between July 19 and 21, just after Dwight Eisenhower endorsed Nixon. Ike's announcement may have swung some sentiment to his former Vice President...
Crossley's poll was taken between July 21 and 26, and Harris' between July 26 and 29. Some analysts point out that as Harris was doing his sampling, Rockefeller's saturation advertising and personal campaign activity was reaching a peak, while Nixon was vacationing briefly and Humphrey was recovering from...
...news media people justify their presence by creating the maximum amount of drama out of a situation which would be rather undramatic without their help. Every day they poll the delegates and report the fluctuations--a few votes up for one candidate here, a few down for another there, will Nixon win on the first ballot...