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Last week the Gallup poll took a sounding on 18 prospective presidential candidates. The first choice, by a large margin, was General Dwight D. Eisenhower...
...Navajo Medicine Man Billy Norton of Gallup, N. Mex. did a large (100 sq. ft.) ceremonial sand-painting especially for a TIME photographer...
...election-day question is whether enough people who dislike Labor are ready to love the Tories. Election betting now gives the Tories a substantial but waning 5-4 edge. Britain's reliable Gallup poll this week reported, among those who had made up their minds, an increase in Tory support (from 50.5% to 52%), but an even larger Labor upsurge (from 38% to 41%). It reported 11% of the voters undecided. It seemed unlikely that Labor would pick up enough of the undecided vote to stave off defeat. Unlikely-but Laborites, talking to keep their courage up, remembered Harry...
...Gallup selected nine possibilities, including Robert Patterson, former Secretary of War, James H. Duff, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator from Maine, Alfred E. Driscoll, Governor of New Jersey since '46, and John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, and asked a cross section of voters to pick its preference...
With political conventions less than a year away, and presidential primaries only months in the future, speculation and prediction on the fate of the GOP are rife. Despite the setback in his Dewey victory forcast in '48, Gallup feels that Truman could not stand against a popular and non-controversial Republican. Now that this party has control, albeit split control, of Congress, the time has come to put a Republican in the White House. Elsewhere Gallup, as well as other political observers, have expressed the belief that another defeat for the GOP would make way for the rise...