Word: pollstering
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Gallup poll, 38% of those asked said they would vote Franklin Roosevelt a third term, 40% said they would vote against him, 22% didn't know, said it depended on the other candidate. Pollster Gallup computed the 22%-balance wheel the 1940 election-at 10,000,000 U. S. voters now undecided...
...George Horace Gallup, punditical pollster of public opinion, last week received at his home in Princeton, N. J. a postcard asking him to choose among the ten leading Presidential candidates. It was from Emil Edward Hurja, the sly, plump ex-newspaperman from Michigan and Alaska who used to dope elections expertly for the Democratic National Committee and now operates his own "political analyst" office in Washington, D. C. for business clients. Mr. Hurja quizzed 149,999 persons besides Dr. Gallup-some in every U. S. county-by postcard and personal interview. Leaders in his poll were Mr. Hurja...