Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organized & Dull. In defense and foreign policy there is a similar contrast between the Republican product and the Republican sales pitch. A recent Gallup poll shows that 64% of U.S. voters feel that the defense position of the U.S. is better now than it was under the Truman Administration. The Republican campaign has done little to capitalize on this highly favorable voter conclusion...
According to results of a poll taken last Tuesday and announced last night, a majority of 316 girls voted against the plan and 166 for it. The largest opposition to the plan came from Moors Hall, which had 83 against and seven for. The only dormitories in favor of extra men at the dance were Briggs, Barnard, and Eliot...
...coming national elections is the strength the party is showing in the race for the Governorship of New York. Until this year, the Democrats have lost four of the last five state-wide elections in the Empire State, by margins ranging up to a million. But the straw poll of the New York Daily News, which has never been wrong, indicates a victory for Democrat Averell-Harriman over Republican Irving Ives by a quarter-million votes. And the Daily News is supporting Ives...
...face of the Daily News poll, New York Republicans have panicked. At their request, President Eisenhowever made a special trip through New York City, Ives clinging desperately to his coat-tails. Democrats are confident of victory, and the Daily News pollsters are defying anyone to take the wind out of their straws...
Presently, voter apathy is so thick it can be cut with a knife. A recent Gal lup poll found that only 21% of voters had given "quite a lot" of thought to the coming election, while 19% had given it "some" thought and 60% "little or none." A year from now it may be hard to believe that the nation did not realize in advance that the 1954 election would set the political scene for 1956 and beyond...