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...Hampshire result raised the question of how the two victors stack up against each other. A nationwide Gallup Poll published just before the New Hampshire primary asked citizens to choose between Eisenhower and Kefauver. Result: Ike 57%, Kefauver 32%, undecided 11%. A Taft v. Kefauver poll taken about the same time showed Kefauver 47%, Taft 41%, undecided...
Spring turnout for the varsity baseball team at Princeton included Thomas E. Dewey Jr., 19 (pitcher), and the pollster's boy, George H. Gallup Jr., 21 (catcher). In Manhattan, James W. Symington, 24, son of the retired RFC head and a law student at Columbia University, picked up a contract to sing in the Carnaval Room of the Sherry-Netherland Hotel. Said Tenor Symington: "I'm paying my spring tuition with what I get here." Nicholas Eden, 20, son of Britain's Foreign Secretary, left Oxford and arrived in Ottawa to begin his new job as aide...
Stalin has swayed the American voter before. A week before the 1950 Congressional elections, George Gallup's poll gave the edge to the Democrats. But that very day the Chinese Communists crossed the Yalu River and turned the UN mopup operation in Korea into a bloody retreat. On election day, the size of the Republican victory surprised even Republicans. Whether or not Chinese intervention was timed to influence the voters...
...Gallup asked Republican voters to name their choice for the Republican presidential nominee. The answers...
...with Eisenhower represented a long and important gain by Taft. A Gallup poll of Republicans in November 1949 showed 25% for Ike and 15% for Taft. By September 1950, the general had shot up to 42% and the Senator was still at 15%. Then Taft began to rise, and Eisenhower started down. By last April it was 38-22 for Ike; in December it was 30-28. The new result indicated that Ike's announcement of willingness to accept a Republican draft did not cause the great shift his way which some pundits had expected. He gained three percentage...