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...victorious Harry Truman holding up a copy of the Chicago Tribune headlined DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN. The fire had been lighted by Pollsters George Gallup, Elmo Roper, et al., who had miscalled the 1948 election. The public remembered 1948, and so did the pollsters. In 1952, though they detected the Ikeward lean with impressive accuracy, they carefully hedged their final figures with large percentages of undecided voters and other forms of insurance...
Closer, Not Farther. In Pennsylvania, Governor John Fine said: "I am getting closer and closer to Eisenhower." Then he added quickly: "The chasm between me and Taft is not broadening." But as Fine talked, he seemed to be listing noticeably Ikeward. He found the argument that Taft can't win "has been most devastating . . . We've got a lot of people who, after 20 long years, don't want to take any risk at all." He mused at some length about a possibility: "If I should declare for Eisenhower, I think that the Taft people would feel...
...voice out of the recent past squealed back into the Republican presidential chorus last week from Philadelphia. For more than a month University of Pennsylvania President Harold Stassen had been uncommonly quiet. The last time he had been heard from, he seemed to be listing about 75 degrees Ikeward, was on record that "on the broad issues I am on the same side as General Eisenhower." Last week, after hearing more from Ike about the issues, he was "disappointed," and he thought other "liberal" Republicans were disappointed...
...Chandler and some other members of the family who own stock in the papers. The Chandler family compromise has been to have the Times plug for Taft, the Mirror for Ike. With pressures of that kind at work, Garland could well be tipped from Taftward to Ikeward before the balloting starts...