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...Although UNIVAC's early predictions gave the Democrats a greater margin in the Senate than he or anyone else found reasonable as the night wore on, his basic forecast that the Democrats would control both Houses of Congress stood up. UNIVAC stuck to his guns on this, while newspaper editions and human analysts switched back and forth with every new return . . . We learn something each time, and hope that by 1956 UNIVAC's performance will be even more accurate...
First there was the inconsequential Post and Telegraph Ministry budget, on which Mendès impatiently demanded a vote of confidence. He won-but by the narrowest margin of his meteoric, five-month tenure: 321 to 207. Later in the week, on the eve of his take-off for a ten-day visit to Canada and the U.S., Mendès asked the Assembly to postpone debate on the ugly North African situation until his return. Again he won-but by a still narrower margin...
Poll Trouble. Aging (74) Washington Evening Star Reporter Gould Lincoln, dean of national political reporters, traveled through 17 states right up to election time, predicted within three the number of Democratic governors, the Democratic margin in the Senate within one seat, and a Democratic majority in the House within a dozen seats. Both the A.P. and New York Times sent last-minute squads of reporters out to check their earlier surveys. As a result, on election eve they predicted a small Democratic majority in the House and said the Senate race would be very close. U.S. News & World Report...
Many of the polls were way off. The powerful New York Daily News's poll, whose gloomy reports caused the Republicans to change their whole campaign in the state, predicted that Harriman would win by a comfortable 8.8% margin in its last poll, reduced his lead to 5.2% in its "weighted" figures. He actually led by less than 1%. In New Jersey, the Princeton poll predicted a landslide for Democratic Senatorial Candidate Howell, who lost to Republican Case. Palmer Hoyt's Denver Post predicted in its poll that Democratic Senatorial Candidate Carroll would win, but he was beaten...
...ticket, and anti-Trumanism was at fever pitch in Virginia. Republican Joel Broyhill won then by 322 votes in his Washington suburban district; this time he won by 4,500. Republican Richard Poff won his Lynchburg-Roanoke district by 2,000 in 1952; this year his margin was 13,000. Republican William Wampler won his Bristol district by 2,300 in 1952; this time he lost by 1,000 in the face of an all-out effort by the powerful Byrd organization. Even in Richmond, a relatively weak G.O.P. candidate came within 5,000 votes of unseating a Democrat...