Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time Vice President Richard Nixon has swung into the lead over the Democrats' hottest presidential contender, Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy, the Gallup poll reported last week. Riding a popularity wave after his trip to the Soviet Union, Nixon edged up on Kennedy thus...
Nixon's greatest strength lies in the Midwest, where he won 54% of the sampling, against Kennedy's 46%. Only in the Democratic South did Nixon fail to poll a majority. Southerners gave Roman Catholic Kennedy a 54% to 46% edge...
...difficulty, says Roper, is that so few parents are doing any advance planning. The poll showed that 60% have not yet set up any savings plan-of these, 25% have had "no chance to think about it." The families who do have savings plans (40%) managed to save only a median $150 last year. At that rate, it will take them ten years to save enough for one year of college for one child-at current costs, and last year alone costs jumped 9.5%. Concludes Ford Foundation Vice President Clarence Faust: "American parents apparently need to know more about...
According to the poll, he himself will likely tell you that, on the whole, his loss of all traditional religious faith did not substantially alter his ethical principles, nor does he feel at all obliged by his convictions to persuade the pious to abandon their beliefs. Incredibly enough, well over a third of those who either flatly reject all belief in God or else hold that there are no adequate grounds for deciding the question, nevertheless think that "on the whole, the Church stands for the best in human life," though it suffers from certain minor human short-comings...
...poll also unearthed a couple of statistical correlations which may faintly suggest the first dim stirrings of full self-consciousness in the unbelievers' souls. Both were connected with the highly hypothetical but heuristically significant choice between war and American surrender "if the United States should find itself in such a position that all other alternatives were closed, save a world war with the Soviet Union or surrender to the Soviet Union." Among the godless, American surrender as the proper alternative was outvoted by less than two-to-one, whereas the general vote against surrender ran close to three...