Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gallup poll reports that 79% of the men and women interviewed in a nationwide survey were opposed to letting Red China into the U.N. Only 8% are in favor and the rest have "no opinion." In 1950, on the eve of the Korean war, only 58% were opposed and 11% in favor...
...were being held today, which party would you like to see win?" The result (outside the regularly Democratic South): Republican 52%, Democrat 48%. After the Army-McCarthy hearings ended, Gallup decided to find out how the televised controversy affected the nation's political pulse. He took the same poll again. Last week he announced the result: exactly the same...
Although the poll indicated that the G.O.P. had not committed hara-kari in the hearing room, it was not completely cheering to party leaders. Since Southern states are Democratic by a margin of about 4-1, the Republicans need 55% of the vote in other states to keep control of the House. Running with Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, they got 54.9% and a shaky three-seat margin; this year the magic name will not be on the ballot...
...poll of 10,000 high-school students on their eating habits, the California Home Economics Association made a surprising discovery: a third of the teenagers often eat no breakfast. Reasons given by the students: not enough time, no breakfast ready, no one to eat with...
...association's nutrition experts, meeting in San Francisco last week, agreed that the poll represented the most scathing indictment of the American Mom since Philip Wylie (in Generation of Vipers) held her over his hot temper and roasted her to a charred turn. The story behind the breakfastless children, the experts reported, is that Mom is a slugabed who refuses to get up in time to scramble the eggs and perc the coffee. Furthermore, the survey showed, many teen-age girls are scared by diet-conscious mothers into skipping breakfast. Then, after the breakfastless daughter goes off to school...