Word: pollsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into that vacuum stepped Louis Harris, pet political pollster both to Jack Kennedy and to Wagner. Harris, who considers himself less a vote sampler than a political analyst, soon got to analyzing...
Time was when a politician, in forecasting victory, had to put his own opinion on the line-"We'll win by 2½ to 1." But no longer: now all he has to do is hire a pollster, leak the results to the press (if they are favorable, which they had better be), and claim that political science itself is on his side...
Last week the New York Times solemnly reported on Page One the fact that an unnamed pollster (it was, in fact, Lou Harris, who has made a profitable career out of conducting polls for Democratic hopefuls) had just completed a survey indicating that New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner could beat Republican Nelson Rockefeller for Governor this year. The poll showed Wagner leading Rocky by 43% to 41%, with 16% undecided...
...York's Democratic Mayor Robert Ferdinand Wagner was brooding deeply. Should he run for Governor this year against Republican Nelson Rockefeller? Would he have a chance of winning? Before making up his mind, Wagner was awaiting a report, due shortly, on a statewide, 1,200-interview survey by Pollster Louis Harris. "Whether Wagner runs for Governor," said a Democratic county chairman, "depends upon what Lou Harris tells him." Plenty of U.S. politicians nowadays wait to make decisions until they hear from Lou Harris. At 41, Harris is the U.S.'s hottest conductor of "private" political polls - canvasses paid...
About one-third of the people polled so far--including a civil servant or two--just didn't know who Chadwick was. Of the rest, "about half were convinced their state legislators were corrupt, while the other half weren't quite sure," one pollster noted...