Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these things I have not yet contemplated." After a call on Stevenson and Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Gaylord Nelson at the executive mansion, Publisher William Evjue of the Madison Capital Times wrote an endorsement of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. And when a reporter told Stevenson that a Wisconsin poll gave him 30% of the Democratic vote without even trying, Stevenson listened in rapt attention. Momentarily dropping his faraway look, he said: "Will you please find [Administrative Secretary] Bill Blair and tell him about that? He keeps track of that sort of thing...
Adlai E. Stevenson is the choice of the Class of 1963 for President, according to a poll conducted this week by the Harvard Eisenhower Club. Vice President Richard M. Nixon ran a close second...
However, all other democratic hopefuls named in the poll, including Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator Stuart Symington of Missouri, were considered easy prey for either Rockefeller or Nixon...
Nixon's stock seems to have risen over the summer, according to a comparison of this poll with one taken last spring...
Vice-President Richard M. Nixon shapes up as the favorite Republican presidential candidate in 1960, according to a poll taken this summer in 13 states by four members of the Young Republican Club...