Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much about his biggest headache: civil rights. Already Illinois' liberal Democrat Paul Douglas and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey had teamed up with Republican Liberals Jacob Javits of New York and Cliff Case of New Jersey to poll all senatorial candidates on a plan to attack Rule 22, the South's license to stop all civil-rights legislation by filibuster. Douglas & Co. could count 41 votes for abolition of Rule 22 as the first order of Senate business, figured they were well within sight of a thunderous victory that would curl the hair of aging Dixiecrats...
Rocky himself was making no promises either way. Said he: "I have no other interest in any other job except being Governor of this state." But the size and scope of his victory had made him a threat to Nixon whether he liked it or not. An Associated Press poll of Republican state chairmen last weekend showed 20 pointing to Nixon as a clear front runner, two (from New York and Massachusetts) claiming Rocky was already the leader-and ten who said it was a tossup between Nixon and Rockefeller...
Editorial Before Midnight. No other paper went so far as the Times. The Philadelphia Inquirer scrupulously avoided any election predictions-as did all three papers in Pittsburgh. The Minneapolis Tribune relied on its statewide poll to indicate trends, let its readers make their own forecasts. All four Los Angeles papers ran poll results, otherwise avoided getting out on a limb. As for the other New York newspapers, the most remarkable performance was a public display of neuro-journalism by the New York Post (see below). The usually hep New York Daily News pulled an Election-Night boner with...
Kennedy's efforts to poll as high a margin as possible succeeded beyond expectation. Although complete returns have not yet been tabulated he is sure to win by more than 600,000 votes...
...quick poll of available Annex students indicated, however, that missiles were a favorite topic of conversation, and several said they would form a Radcliffe Rocket Club if barred from membership in the Harvard group...