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...every side were signs of a rising Republican tide. New York Times surveyors, still making their way across the country, found Dwight Eisenhower leading in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Colorado, gaining in a "close" Texas race, apparently out of the running only in Oklahoma. The Gallup poll reported Ike ahead with a 60% lead in a region embracing twelve northeastern states with 153 electoral votes; in 1952 he won 55.2% of the popular vote in those states...
...week wore on, less prejudiced guesstimates piled up. The Gallup poll showed the Eisenhower-Nixon popular vote holding steady at 52% (v. 55% at the same point in 1952), showed Stevenson-Kefauver down a percentage point since September to 40%-with undecideds at 8%. Perhaps the most impressive evidence came from hard-to-convince teams of New York Times reporters poking and probing into the political mainstreams of 16 states to report that...
...chance is to grab onto Senator Warren Magnuson's flying coattails in Washington-and the industrial Northeast, where Pennsylvania looked especially important to the political swarms that were heading its way. That the Stevenson campaign still faced a steep uphill climb was evidenced by last week's Gallup poll, showing Ike still ahead of Adlai by 52% to 41%, with 7% undecided. For all the talk of farm revolt and G.O.P. disaster, Adlai Stevenson had not yet gained a single percentage point on Dwight Eisenhower since the poll published two weeks earlier...
...start of the 1952 campaign, when the first post-convention sampling gave Eisenhower 50%, Stevenson 43%, and left 7% undecided. When the popular vote was counted in November, Eisenhower received 54.9%, Stevenson 44.4%. If the present undecided 7% were to split as the "decideds" did, Pollster Gallup pointed out, the candidates would stand today...
With the campaign's preliminary stages over, the first assessments of Early-Starter Stevenson's performance were on record last week. His campaigning, actually in progress since he announced last November that he would seek the nomination, might have given him a genuine advantage. But the Gallup poll did not show that it had done so, nor did the first cool analyses of what he had accomplished...