Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidates are convinced Kennedy will have the satisfaction of defeating his Republican opponent, which ought to soothe the wounds considerably. The outlook was not always so bright for the former Attorney General, however. The turning point of the campaign came about three weeks ago when Keating announced that his polls showed him significantly out in front. While Kennedy's aides feel this may have been true three weeks ago, Keating lost his most valuable asset: the image of the old, experienced community servant fighting a losing battle against a young upstart. Kennedy readily embraces the role of underdog and always...
...University, two huge majorities for Eisenhower, 75% in the Business School, and 60% in the Freshman class, put the Republican over the top in the total University vote. The Crimson made a valiant attempt to give it to Stevenson, bringing in Law School totals from a different poll, but the result was accurately declared fraudulent by the Harvard Young Republicans...
...only the Business School was Nixonian. Yet in the Senatorial straw poll of 1962 Harvard College went back to the fold and endorsed the unsuccessful George Cabot Lodge by a 52% majority...
...Radcliffe and the Faculty went further left than they had ever gone in a staw poll, approving H. Stuart Hughes' independent candidacy for Massachusetts senator, while the College was solidly behind Lodge. Edward M. Kennedy, ultimately victorious, got only 12% of the Radcliffe vote, and less than a half dozen-faculty spokesmen...
...every area in the University united behind Lyndon Johnson. Not since the election of William McKinley in 1896 has a major party candidate been so devastated so unanimously in a Harvard straw poll. That year William Jennings Bryan raised the same issue of East versus West sectionalism that Barry Goldwater has raised in this election; apparently the only issue which draws together, and unites even the Law and Business Schools, even the Faculty and the freshmen...