Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...article on the Louis Harris poll regarding commitment [May 2] is terrifying, and should make many a friendly country run for cover. It is an invitation to Communist pressure throughout the world. Anyone who has experience in leadership knows that there is a price for leadership. Anyone who lives with the benefits of an affluent society should know that there is a price for affluence. There is really no free ride in life. We must be prepared to meet with force, if necessary, those who seek to take away our liberty and our advantages. We must continue to pray that...
...would be most interested in learning which of the countries named in the TIME-Harris poll would, in fact, defend the U.S. or aid in some way if we were to have an attack from China or Russia...
Piggyback Voter. Allen's supporters had hoped to keep the Negro vote down by dissuading individual Negroes from turning out. The arguments were quiet but forceful. The strategy failed, however, to counter Evers' volunteer poll watchers, who were equipped with walkie-talkies and who checked off voters against a master list and then sought out laggards and strays. One ancient cripple was carried piggyback to vote. All except about 30 blacks cast their ballots...
...results of the poll will be distributed to Harvard dining halls and Radcliffe dormitories as soon as possible this evening...
Last week's polls only partly indicate how formidable a threat Poher is to Pompidou. If no one wins a majority on June 1, a runoff election between the two top vote getters will be held two weeks later. Pompidou might then find that Gaullist drawing power is fixed. If Poher, on the other hand, can assemble a large anti-Gaullist coalition - such as defeated the referendum - his current 35% reading might translate into a majority, as those voters who backed candidates eliminated in Round 1 choose between the two survivors. He already has the endorsement...