Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gallup's survey showed Richard Nixon defeating both Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy for the presidency. If the election took place at the time of the poll, Nixon would win, Gallup said, by two points over Humphrey and by five points over McCarthy. The sampling suggested that Nelson Rockefeller would merely tie Humphrey and defeat McCarthy by one percentage point of the vote...
POLITICAL poll taking in recent years has proved considerably more reliable than oneiromancy, haruspication or the casting of rune stones. George Gallup has erred in his election polls by only 1.5% since 1954. Yet last week, Gallup and Louis Harris published such divergent interpretations of the preconvention G.O.P. standings that Gallup's son and partner, George Jr., admitted that the psephologists were facing "a credibility-gap problem...
Jury Time. That was 16 months ago, and Garrison's allegations were so sensational and so persuasive that the Louis Harris Poll reported that the number of Americans who questioned the Warren Report rose from 44% to 66%. Garrison, whose size (6 ft. 6 in.) and flamboyance have won him the nickname "Jolly Green Giant," is a district attorney who prides himself on a high conviction rate. Yet little has happened since Shaw's arrest. Even some of his supporters are beginning to ask, just what kind of case does he have against Shaw? Does he have evidence...
Just one day after the Gallup poll showed Richard Nixon to be stronger against either Hubert Humphrey or Eugene McCarthy than is Nelson Rockefeller, the Harris poll published the opposite results. Later, in a joint statement, the two pollsters defended themselves and each other, and suggested that Rockefeller was ahead and gaining steadily with the people...
...Self-immolation. Surprisingly, a poll released last week showed that 77% of the population supports Pacheco's actions, and he is showing no signs of letting up. "Our goals must be containment of expenses, austerity by everybody," he says. "The self-immolation of a society because of passivity is a philosophy that we will never accept. I'm in the ring and I'm fighting as hard...