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...certain as taxes is the assumption that nobody likes to pay them. Crisscrossing the U.S. at tax-filing time, Gallup pollsters asked sweating form-fillers whether they felt they were overtaxed, learned that 61% did. The total, reported Gallup, was up 2% from a similar survey four years ago, but lower than the 71% who complained of being overtaxed in 1952 before reductions were made...
Testing trends before next year's congressional elections, Pollster George Gallup last week announced some answers to a Galluping theoretical question: if you had to register today, would it be as a Democrat or Republican? To nobody's surprise, 53% of those questioned went Democratic, including 59% of those not now registered with either party. But to nobody's surprise as well, the G.O.P. had carved extensive inroads since the question last was asked in 1954. At that time Gallup found a 20-million voter spread between parties; in 1957 the difference had dropped to 12.7 million...
Ominously, the News Chronicle's latest Gallup poll showed that if a general election were held now, 40% of those asked would vote Labor, only 31% Conservative. Never in recent years had Labor held such a lead. But the poll also logged a record number of "Don't Know" votes (21½%)-and strangely enough, most of these were reported by pro-Labor voters. If Britons were dissatisfied with the go-day-old Conservative Macmillan government, they were also dubious about Laborite Hugh Gaitskell's Opposition...
From Pollster George Gallup last week came three seedlings for the spring crop of political speculation. Items: ¶Among Democrats, 66% expect their candidate, whoever he may be, to win the presidency in 1960. Only 54% of Republicans and 29% of Independents expect the next President to be a Republican...
...Dwight Eisenhower's popularity, measured by Gallup's stock query on approval or disapproval of the way the President is doing his job, slid from the term-opening peak of 79% in January...