Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gaggle of politicians, statisticians, poll-counters and newsmen collected beneath the glittering chandeliers of the Interior Ministry and waited for the returns from the biggest election turnout...
...Council of Scientific Investigation, an agency of Franco's office, took an anonymous poll of some 400 Madrid University students, carefully selected from various faculties and home backgrounds to give a Gallup-type cross section of opinion. The students were asked what they thought of 1) the ruling minority, 2) the military leaders, 3) the university professors, 4) the church hierarchy...
...Methodist Church published results of its first nationwide opinion poll of Methodists. Among those polled, total abstinence from alcohol was endorsed by 68.9%, slightly more than were opposed to breaking the speed limit (67.7%). But despite a "clear warning of the church against games of chance," a few more than 50% saw nothing wrong in bingo, and the onetime Methodist sin of dancing is now frowned on by only 15.2%. Condemned by about 95%: profanity and the misrepresentation of a product "in trying to make a sale...
...recent by-election defeats (TIME, Nov. 7) showed up Liberal weak spots in New Brunswick and Ontario. Last week there was evidence that the weakness may be spreading elsewhere in the party that has governed Canada continuously since 1935. For the third time in five months, the Gallup poll indicated a decline in the Liberals' share of the popular vote. The Liberal proportion now stands at 46%, lowest since the 1953 general election. Said the Gallup poll report: "The shift is consistent enough to constitute a trend...
...clearly toward the Tories. The strength of the minority CCF (socialist) and Social Credit Parties has remained fairly constant in the past six months, but the voters' preference for the Tories has risen from 26% in June to 32% today. Most encouraging from the Tory standpoint is the poll's evidence of a 22% increase in Tory popularity in Ontario and a 17% gain in Quebec, good signs that the party is making its greatest headway in the two big provinces where federal election campaigns are lost...