Word: polled
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Kennedy is still given the edge in his next encounter with McCarthy, the California primary. The Don Muchmore Poll predicts 40% of the vote for Kennedy, 25% for McCarthy, and 25% for Attorney General Thomas Lynch, who entered the race for President Johnson and is now assumed to be Humphrey's surrogate. Bobby fared surprisingly well in one nonelective contest last week, picking up a minimum of 25 of Iowa's 46 delegate votes (v. about ten for Humphrey, five for McCarthy) at the state convention in Des Moines...
...varying degree, polls account for the biggest surprises of this surprising election year. George Romney dropped out of the presidential race because his private polls showed him losing badly to Richard Nixon. Robert Kennedy dropped in only after his polls convinced him that he could beat Lyndon Johnson in the California primary. In renouncing a second term, Johnson was influenced by a Gallup poll showing that only 26% of the people approved his handling of the Viet...
...pollsters rose to fame and influence on the basis of two celebrated debacles. During the 1936 presidential campaign, the old Literary Digest ran a mail poll and was wrong, while three more scientific pollsters were right. Those three-George H. Gallup, Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley-conducted interviews among a predetermined mix of ethnic, income and age groups that seemed representative of the U.S. population. The other turning point was in 1948, when the pollsters again used this "quota system" of sampling-but were wrong. The U.S. had become so complex that picking just the right population...
...Also for the first time, the party newspaper Rude Pravo invited its readers to weigh in with their views on the direction Czechoslovakia ought to take. The questions in the poll were nothing if not direct, including one that asked whether "an internal democratization process of the Communist Party is a sufficient guarantee for democracy...
...loyalty. While she was Governor, Wallace had been unquestioned master of Alabama, free to conscript dozens of administration cronies to work full time in his campaign; 16 state troopers shielded him from hecklers when he went speechifying. Now, with campaign cash dwindling and April's Gallup poll showing his nationwide popularity down four points to a meager 10%, those days are numbered. Alabama's ambitious new Governor Albert Brewer, 39, is expected to fire state jobholders who stay away from work to stump for Wallace...