Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Please do not apply "cropper" when a poll was "proper" [Sept. 18]. After all, Opinion Research of California predicted my election, and I love that kind of accuracy...
...spite of these squabbles, the Johnson-Humphrey ticket will carry Texas by a better margin than the Kennedy-Johnson ticket did and might even win sixty per cent of the vote. A private poll conducted in bellwether sections of the state indicates that he is doing handsomely in all areas except in low income, non-Negro neighborhoods where there is some evidence of heavy "white backlash" sentiment...
Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's Conservatives got some more cheery news last week: a Daily Express poll of voters giving the Tories a 2.3% lead equal to a 75-seat majority in the new House of Commons that is to be elected next month. The poll returns suggested a continuing shift away from Labor's once-commanding margin, sent London stocks shooting ahead, caused bookmakers to revise their odds against the Tories from 2-1 to 6-4, moved Laborites to grumble about the effect of England's halcyon summer upon public sentiment. Labor took...
...Texan servicemen in Texas, Mabry did not vote by absentee ballot in his home state. Moreover, he has been stationed in Bexar County (San Antonio) since 1959, owns a home there on which he pays taxes like any other resident. Yet last January, when he and his wife paid poll taxes, Mabry's receipt (unlike his wife's) was stamped "not eligible to vote." Precisely the same thing happened to his friend, Air Force Lieut. David M. Sneary, 26, a former Oklahoman...
...poll of delegates disclosed that 68% opposed holding another convention in Atlantic City. But to some thoughtful Democrats it seemed to have been an inspired choice. As Delegate Arthur Jones of Britten, S. Dak., put it: "Here we're mingling with the real people who make up America, who are going to decide the election...