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...been assured of Pennsylvania's 74 convention votes by Governor George Leader and Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence, Stevenson remarked: "I can't be sure, of course, that I will retain their allegiance until next August." Estes Kefauver was in no better shape; his improved Gallup poll rating after the Minnesota primary could be expected to fall off after last week's dismal New Jersey showing...
Week after week, while I was out of the country, they hammered at a weakened Roosevelt, who finally gave in most reluctantly. The Gallup poll published on July 18, 1944 indicated that among the rank-and-file I had 65 percent of the vote and Truman only 2 percent. I would have been named in 1944 if Hannegan and Flynn had kept their hands off the delegates...
Speaking to a rapt covey of newshens, Pollster George Gallup, mindful of the time when his prophecies all but installed Thomas E. Dewey in the White House, made it clear that he will crawl out on no limb this election year. Announced hypercautious Dr. Gallup: "As I look into this crystal ball, I see a light flashing and hear a small voice saying, 'Remember 1948.' It will be my intention in this campaign simply to use the magic words, 'Let others make the predictions...
...last week Pollster George Gallup kept grasping for adjectives to describe the upsurge in Estes Kefauver's popular support. First, Gallup reported that since he last polled them a month ago the number of Democrats favoring Kefauver has jumped from 18% to 33% and the number of independents from 25% to 29%. (During the same period Stevenson supporters among Democrats had dwindled from 51% to 39% and among independents from...
...Next, Gallup matched the Tennessean against the field in the South. Five months ago Kefauver was the favorite presidential candidate of only 12% of Southern Democrats, running behind both Stevenson (38%) and Georgia's Richard Russell (17%). By last week's report the figures are: Stevenson 28%, Kefauver 26%, Russell 13%. Finally, Gallup tested Estes against President Eisenhower among all voters, and found that, though Ike still has a big lead (59% to 38%), Kefauver has nonetheless made progress since February 1955, when a similar poll gave Ike 60% and Kefauver 34%. Dr. Gallup's last word...