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Word: polling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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MERRIMAN SMITH GARNETT D. HORNER Press Room The White House Washington, D.C. ¶ TIME'S own White House reporters do not need a poll to know when their colleagues are acting baffled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 24, 1958 | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...Gallup poll showed last week that Nixon is favored for the G.O.P. nomination by a whopping 64% of Republican voters, as against 48% last November, and by 40% of independents, against 24% in November. Runner-up among Republicans: California's Senator William Knowland, with 9%. Among independents: Harold Stassen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Walking the Tightrope | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

Diefenbaker's crowd-compelling, headline-snaring campaign has seemingly given his Tories a running start to victory. The latest precampaign Gallup poll rated them the favorites of 50% of the voters who had made up their minds, v. 35% for the Liberals, 15% for the two minor parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Showdown Election | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...tons of high explosives . . . On the assumption that I am right in thinking we are not in front in this race, we should not forget that our tests are more important to us than theirs are to them." Two Kinds of Fission. But nearly every political poll shows the Tories trailing Labor in popularity, and odds are that after the next general election, Britain will have a Labor government. Wrote London's conservative Daily Telegraph last week: "These foolish concessions might lessen the danger of political fission within the Labor Party. But they would do nothing to lessen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Out of Step | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

...Labor, the split in the party's ranks boded ill just at a time when virtually every poll showed them well ahead of the Tories in popularity. They have not forgotten that a bitter division on defense policy sent the party to defeat in the 1951 and 1955 elections. Then it was Nye Bevan who led the divisive revolt against German rearmament. Day after last week's debate, the Labor Executive Committee, including "Shadow Foreign Minister" Nye Bevan, summoned leaders of the Victory-for-Socialism group to answer for their "activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Concurrence on Deterrence | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

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