Word: polled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the Wreckage. Last week's Gallup poll was no tonic for Humphrey. It showed fellow Minnesotan Eugene McCarthy holding thin leads over both Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller. Against Nixon, reported the poll, Humphrey would also win, but he would merely tie with Rocky. Since last month, all of the candidates have been holding comparatively steady in the polls, except for Alabama's George Wallace, who has now inched as high as 21% in the standoff between Rockefeller and Humphrey...
...helped by the electorate's prevailing en nui with familiar faces and conventional styles. He took his third-party candidacy on a six-day, 24-town swing through Massachusetts last week, drawing curious, generally friendly crowds of up to 3,000, despite ubiquitous hecklers. The latest Gallup poll showed that Wallace has steadily gained popularity not only in the Solid South but elsewhere in the country as well...
Evaluations of the debate followed endlessly. What were the issues in the debates, and how far did these affect the final decision of American voters about their choices in November? Dr. George Gallup, in his comprehensive and scholarly poll found that most Americans were evenly divided as to who they thought won the debates. He also found that the main issue on which Americans thought they could and should make their decision in view of the debates, was essentially which candidate had a more typical upbringing for an American boy to admire and which man used more "homey" language, filled...
...poll of TIME correspondents in all 50 states and the District of Columbia indicates that the answers to the three questions are 1) quite possibly, 2) no, and 3) yes. Regardless of current polls that show him trailing Democrats Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy, Nixon stands at least an even chance of winning on Election Day. Of course, the conduct of the campaign itself and the effectiveness of the candidates on television could change the outcome. Moreover, this conclusion is based on several premises, none of which may be entirely safe. Among them are the assumptions that Humphrey will...
...historically concerned itself with enlarging the electorate, the U.S. has always treated one large group of citizens with curious neglect. Over the years, five major groups have been added to the voting ranks: the landless (under the Constitution), Negroes (1870), women (1920), Washingtonians (1961) and refugees from the poll tax (1964). Yet America, a nation obsessed with youth, with nearly half its population under 25, does not let a citizen vote until he is 21.* An 18-year-old can be drafted, and he can be held fully responsible before the law, can even be given the death penalty...