Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Kennedy's advisers imagine the South has any deep affection for Lyndon Johnson, they are wholly mistaken. The Texan is widely regarded as a renegade, a turncoat, an opportunist who plays footsie with the liberal Negro bloc." Even in Lyndon Johnson's home state, a poll of newspaper publishers showed that, by a majority of 16 to 14, they expected Nixon to carry Texas. New York Herald Tribune Reporter (and Nixon Biographer) Earl Mazo returned from the South breathlessly convinced that if the election had been held last week. Nixon would have swept the entire Old Confederacy...
...Changing Poll. The first Gallup poll since the conventions showed a surprising switch. Just before the Democratic Convention. Kennedy led 52 to 48. Last week's poll showed Nixon 50%, Kennedy 44%, undecided 6%. Nixon forces were concerned as well as pleased by the poll. They privately agreed with the Kennedy forces that it was probably taken too soon after the impact of Nixon's successful acceptance speech to be a steady indicator, and feared a downturn next time. Nixon forces are convinced that the "undecideds" are far more than 6%-perhaps 25% of the vote...
...primary day a year ago, the white poll watchers panicked and turned away every one of the handful of Negroes who tried to vote. The Negroes went home, formed the Fayette County Civic and Welfare League, and filed a suit in the federal district court at Memphis. Last April they won a consent decree that outlawed Fayette County's all-white primary, and the number of registered Negro voters rose to 500 v. 5,000 whites. But the whites had another weapon...
...inviting all 2,662 convention delegates and alternates to a dance this week at the Sheraton-Towers. And he did nothing to suppress the busy draft-Rockefeller movement organized by San Francisco Lawyer William M. Brinton?not even when Brinton put out a Nixon-can't-win-in-November poll showing Nixon lagging far behind Kennedy in New York, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois and Texas...
Vice President Richard Nixon expects a stiff uphill fight against the Democrats, and test-borings of the U.S. electorate confirm his estimate. Last week's Gallup poll of party preference among five major occupation groups shows that since 1952 the G.O.P. has won few new friends and lost some old ones...