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...country going to the dogs? or are the dogs coming to us? A dog-trot poll taken on a questionnaire made up by the Lampoon chapter of the SPCA which will be reported in its forthcoming issue says it has been definitely established that "this is a dog's life." Lampy has been to a great deal of trouble in recent months trying to ascertain the dog's point of view. The survey took seven months and four days to complete, seven months and two days being devoted to the opinions of the Baffinland clamhound...
Congressmen moved gingerly. A bare majority was reported to be in favor, but few of them were ready to commit themselves until they knew definitely how the public winds blew. Public opinion showed that most U.S. citizens were in favor of such an act. The Gallup poll showed 63% answering Yes; an Iowa poll (sponsored by the Des Moines Sunday Register), 71%; the FORTUNE poll, 69%; the National Opinion Research Center poll...
...National Education Association poll last week showed that 1,300 school superintendents are substantially (60%) of the same mind...
...Talmadge, tobacco-spittin', suspender-snappin' ex-Governor of Georgia, whose "white supremacy" spiels were his longtime political stock-in-trade, tooted a variation of his old tune in his weekly newspaper, the Statesman, urged Georgia's legislature to repeal the state's $1-a-year poll tax. Said he: "You will get a fairer, expression from the people. . . . There is a great deal of argument that the abolishment of the poll tax would put the Negro to voting . . . such is not the case. The Negroes as a class don't care to vote anyway unless...
Actually, a random sampling of opinion "directly from the voters" is highly untrustworthy. Accurate results can be obtained only by applying an elaborate series of checks and balances concerning types of voters, voting habits, etc. His polls, explained Dr. Gallup, depend on "at least twelve important adjustments for their accuracy." In this complex mathematical calculation, involving such unknown quantities as election-day weather, the only sin of which Pollster Gallup appeared guilty was that he may have used his Xs to bring down Roosevelt's vote and failed to recognize other X factors which would bring it up again...