Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan's only precedent, a similar poll in 1935 when 88.2 percent of the student body voted in favor of receiving individual course grades--the faculty revised the system in accordance with student wishes...
...Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference's annual poll, which correctly picked Cornell as last year's winner, looked for a three way battle between Cornell, Pennsylvania, and Princeton this year, with Penn the probable winner...
According to a public-opinion poll taken in West Germany last week, 76% of the Germans believe that German soldiers are the best there are; the Russians are a poor second (3%) and the Americans a worse third (2%). Nevertheless, the poll showed, the G.I. as occupier is more popular than he has ever been: 57% of the Germans think that relations with the U.S. troops are better than last year, and 71% want the U.S. soldiers to stay and help defend their fatherland. Why? Because...
...Poll Trouble. Aging (74) Washington Evening Star Reporter Gould Lincoln, dean of national political reporters, traveled through 17 states right up to election time, predicted within three the number of Democratic governors, the Democratic margin in the Senate within one seat, and a Democratic majority in the House within a dozen seats. Both the A.P. and New York Times sent last-minute squads of reporters out to check their earlier surveys. As a result, on election eve they predicted a small Democratic majority in the House and said the Senate race would be very close. U.S. News & World Report...
Many of the polls were way off. The powerful New York Daily News's poll, whose gloomy reports caused the Republicans to change their whole campaign in the state, predicted that Harriman would win by a comfortable 8.8% margin in its last poll, reduced his lead to 5.2% in its "weighted" figures. He actually led by less than 1%. In New Jersey, the Princeton poll predicted a landslide for Democratic Senatorial Candidate Howell, who lost to Republican Case. Palmer Hoyt's Denver Post predicted in its poll that Democratic Senatorial Candidate Carroll would win, but he was beaten...