Word: polling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...George Gallup (Institute of Public Opinion) last week found a ½% increase in Willkie's popular vote (to 45.5%), an increase of four in electoral votes (to 121), 7% of the voters still undecided. But ten key Roosevelt States were well within the poll's 4% margin of error, and the trend to Willkie had not been stopped. Preparing for the worst, Gallup confessed: ". . . There are . . . factors . . . which cannot be measured by scientific methods...
...FORTUNE'S poll reported 57% of U. S. voters with opinions (6.5% were undecided) on Franklin Roosevelt's side, but pointed out that his majority was concentrated in the South and West, which he had anyway, and Wendell Willkie could still bring home the bacon by stepping up his slight advantage in the East and Middle West...
...Publisher Emil Hurja fortnight ago flaunted a possible Willkie landslide by as much as 5,000,000 to 8,000,000 votes. Last week his Pathfinder poll dumped the whole outcome in Pennsylvania's lap - whoever won the Keystone State won the election...
...With 67% of its straw votes in, the New York Daily News couldn't find a percentage point in favor of either candidate in New York State. The poll stood 50.0 to 50.0 early this week, and the News trotted out some talk about scientific weighting at poll's end to produce the winner...
...only do most of the National Scholars spend their summers holding down regular jobs in farming, business, or industry, but also their tendency has been to do two or three different types of work apiece in the last five years, according to results of a poll taken by Henry Chauncey '28, assistant dean of the College...