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Pollster George Gallup, who covers the public opinion beat for 122 newspapers,* had a hot pre-convention argument last week. His opponent was Charles Michelson, former Democratic publicity chief. Their dispute was over the value of polls...
Fortunately for national stability, the U.S. Constitution cannot be amended by a Gallup poll. But if it could be, possibly the most urgent constitutional issue now facing the U.S. would have been settled last week. The issue: the abolition of the famed "two-thirds rule" which kept the U.S. out of the League of Nations-the rule by which a Senate minority (one-third plus one of the members) can prevent ratification of a treaty. Gallup pollsters found 60% of citizens in favor of allowing treaties to be ratified by a simple majority of both House and Senate. Only...
...What we don't know is likely to hurt us." Such was the conclusion this week of Gallup pollsters whose constant questioning of U.S. citizens about public affairs has unearthed surprising "areas of ignorance." Some of them...
Eleanor Roosevelt's peregrinations have worried so many people so long that the Gallup poll finally caught up with them. Vox populi: too much peregrinating, 45%; okay, 36%; no opinion, 6%; none of their business...
...mortal blow to the hopes of anti-Rooseveltians within the Democratic Party had been dealt by the primary triumphs of New Dealing Senators Claude Pepper and Lister Hill (TIME, May 15). More than ever the President looked like his Party's one & only hope in 1944. A Gallup poll indicated that 50% of those who plan to vote for him will vote for a Republican if Roosevelt does...