Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Straws in the Wind. Had there been no signs that the prophets were wrong? Looking back, pollsters found that there had been...
...letter to his own editor, the New York Times's Reporter James ("Scotty") Reston said: "The great intangible of this election was the political influence of the Roosevelt era on the thinking of the nation . . . We were wrong, not only on the election, but what's worse, on the whole political direction of our time...
...process of rationalizing the error had begun. And the soreheads were getting in their licks. Wrote the New York Daily News's John O'Donnell (who had first asked to have the paper's lady astrologist assigned to the Washington bureau) : "O.K., they were all wrong (most definitely, including this writer) on the Truman election. So what? So were the voters who elected Truman." Sneered George Sokolsky: "Truman gave out during the campaign, becoming boisterous and vulgar. Some say that he made votes for himself that way. If true, that is a reflection on the intelligence...
...George Gallup, Elmo Roper, Archibald Crossley and all the other pollsters who had been dead wrong on the election could not see the joke. They had reason to wonder last week whether their great fiasco would not put them, like the Digest, out of business...
Last Straw? At week's end, the pollsters themselves were still trying to figure out how they had come such croppers. Roper, confessing that he "could not have been more wrong," asked a group of social scientists to check over all his pre-election data for clues. Gallup started to recheck his pre-election polls; his field workers were re-interviewing the same people to find out how they had actually voted...