Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Conclusions, drawn on a hairline, depended upon which way hopes lay. Last State by State Gallup poll showed Roosevelt leading in 28 States. Willkie in 20-a loss of four States for Willkie since a poll early in August. Willkie retained a lead in electoral votes...
...conclusion, I cannot refrain from referring to the latest Gallup Poll . . . which purports to show that in my home State of Montana 64% of the people favor peacetime conscription! I believe I know Montanans better than all of Mr. Gallup's Pollers and I can assure you that Dr. Gallup is wrong-woefully wrong-when he indicates that Montana, or any Western or Midwestern State, shows majorities for peacetime conscription...
...evidence is overwhelming that polls conducted by scientific methods of sampling public opinion are accurate. But TIME does not conduct the Gallup Poll and, although that poll's record has been good, cannot vouch for its complete scientific accuracy. Senator Wheeler might suggest to Dr. Gallup that they jointly conduct a poll in Montana under conditions that will satisfy both of them...
...happens that the letters TIME receives from readers are in about the Gallup proportion, 2-to-1 in favor of conscription. In talking of an army of 700,000 men without conscription the Senator apparently 1) includes the National Guard; 2) overlooks the fact that the primary object of conscription is not to raise a large standing army but to train 2,000,000 or more men for call in emergency...
...greater series of military disasters. He has concealed nothing. He has endured everything with unflinching courage and resource. His reward is that he has become to our people and to our friends in other countries the symbol of energy and endurance and the guarantee of ultimate victory. . . ." The latest Gallup poll gave Winston Churchill the support of 88% of the British people...