Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...understandable joy of the editors of the Catholic Digest over their recent poll should be tempered with a large dose of realism. It is very easy to check an answer on a questionnaire, particularly if the answer proves one a good person. It is quite another matter to live on the assumption of the validity of the Christian (or even the theistic) philosophy in the routine of daily life...
...astonishingly quiet Election Day. A few election officials unscrewed the backs of voting machines "for mechanical reasons" and sneaked a look at the vote. There was a little minor scuffling: in Albany, N.Y., a Republican committeeman punched a Democratic poll watcher in the nose. In Seattle an old man who had waited in line for three hours was told that he had forgotten to register. He began to weep. "This," he sobbed, "is my last time." The crowd yelled: "Let him vote." He registered forthwith, voted and said happily: "I thank...
...they were not making that mistake again. So when their figures repeatedly showed Dwight Eisenhower running in front, the more experienced pollsters went into learned loops to explain why such figures were not to be trusted. Almost all of them stressed the "undecided" vote. George Gallup's final poll showed...
...many ways the best poll was one that did not approach the man in the street: Columnist David Lawrence polled the editors of daily newspapers in every state. Their verdict:, Eisenhower to win with 357 electoral votes...
Election excitement in October made a noticeable dent on the movie box office, according to a Variety poll of 25 key cities, but the popular pictures nonetheless showed "amazing strength." The armor-plate horse opera Ivanhoe (MGM) held a steady lead, but The Snows of Kilimanjaro (20th Century-Fox) was pushing hard from second place. Other winners...