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Pollster George Gallup investigated the Eisenhower-for-President boom this week. Asked whether Ike is a Republican or a Democrat, 22% of those polled said they thought he was a Republican, 20% a Democrat, 58% said they did not know. (But if Ike wants to run in 1948 it will obviously have to be as a Republican; Harry Truman has the Democratic nomination sewed up.) Asked if they would like to see Ike a presidential candidate, the replies were: yes, 35%; no, 48%; did not know...
After ten years of milking the average American of his opinions and then selling them back to him, operators of the Gallup poll plunged into their files to discover the sort of fellow with whom they had been doing business. This week they published the results...
...Stassenites were not perturbed by the fact that many in the U.S. thought of them as impractical zealots, or that Stassen's Gallup poll rating had sunk in the last 15 months from 34% to 15%. They listened with patient and slightly puzzled expressions to a question-&-answer joke which politicians of both parties were happily repeating among themselves...
...given a geography exam by Gallup pollsters, and flunked badly. Handed a map of Europe on which countries were outlined but not named, U.S. citizens were asked to tell which was which. The wife of an Illinois school superintendent thought that Germany was France, Austria was Yugoslavia, put Bulgaria in Hungary, Rumania in Czechoslovakia and Poland in Turkey. The average U.S. woman put only five out of twelve European countries in their proper places; the average man got six right. Only one in seven knew where Bulgaria belonged...
Harry Truman's veto of the tax and labor bills had opened the 1948 presidential campaign with a bang. Last week, poll-taking Dr. George Gallup recorded the echoes...