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...last preconvention Gallup poll among Republicans, Dewey's strength fell 7%, Bricker's went up 3%, in the past month. But Dewey still had an overwhelming...
...national campaign to get more Victory Gardens planted isn't doing so well this year, reported the Gallup Poll last week. The goal was 22,000,000 gardens (1.6 families per garden). The achievement: about 17,500,000 gardens. Roughly two-and-a-half million more families told pollsters that they plan to plant that plot as soon as they can get it plowed up. But even this addition would still make the total 2,000,000 short of the goal, and 500,000 less than the number of gardens actually planted during 1943. The lag was chiefly...
White-haired Mr. Michelson singled out Dr. Gallup's poll, which reported that 61% of the U.S. people thought that the Government erred in taking over Montgomery Ward. Wrote Michelson (for North American Newspaper Alliance): "As there are involved knotty questions over which the lawyers will be wrangling clear up to the Supreme Court, the acquirement of so definite a result comes near to being miraculous. Incidentally, isn't there a question of whether this does not come close to things the courts could hardly permit...
...Philosophy) Gallup found Michelson's opinions "based upon a complete misconception of aim and method." Said the pollster: "The people may not be fully informed on all the complexities of any given issue. But that does not stop them from having opinions. . . . Mr. Michelson ignores a point which undoubtedly he knows well, which is that opinions are subject to change and so are political tides...
Were jurists in the case of Montgomery Ward likely to be affected by the poll? Dr. Gallup thought not. Were Congressmen swayed? Dr. Gallup declared that "all wise Congressmen take public opinion into account in deciding how they shall vote...