Word: ropers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Where the People Stand (Sun. 2:45 p.m., CBS). Elmo Roper weighs the popular satisfaction and dissatisfaction with the Truman-Barkley, Dewey-Warren tickets...
Presidential Straws in the Wind (Wed. 8:30 p.m., CBS Television). Guests:Elmo Roper, Lyman Bryson...
Where the People Stand (Sun. 2:45 p.m., CBS). Elmo Roper reports why Wallaceites favor Wallace...
...main reasons for supporting Dewey, said Roper, are a feeling that it's time for a change, that Dewey has proved himself a capable administrator, that he would be able to handle Russia abroad and do a "good, sound, businesslike job" at home. Against him is a dislike of the cold, cocksure Dewey manner, a fear that he is motivated by expediency, and the fact that he has run before and lost. As of last month, when Dewey was riding the crest of his Oregon victory, he could have beaten President Truman by 41% to 34%, would have lost...
Concluded Pollster Roper: "Governor Dewey is not a surefire bet to win the presidency but he will be a hard candidate for the Democrats to defeat. Perhaps his greatest weakness, from the long-term standpoint of the Republican Party, is his lack of appeal to young voters. His greatest strengths are his record of efficient administration, his own strength in the Middle West and Warren's strength on the West Coast...