Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Lubell's findings seemed to dovetail with the responses to a new Gallup poll, which asked the question: If a summit meeting is held next year, whom would you like to represent the U.S. as President? The answers...
...belaboring of the Vice President was helping him. The U.S. public's clearest image of Richard Nixon is of an intense, finger-waving man arguing with Nikita Khrushchev in the kitchen of the U.S. exhibit at Moscow's Sokolniki Park in the summer of 1959; his Gallup poll soared on his return from Moscow-after which, predictably, it dropped. Almost as clear is the image of a man inextricably identified with Eisenhower's foreign policy-a picture which caused Nixon's friends to miss a few heartbeats in the post-summit days when the story unfolded...
...doubt that Diefenbaker's momentum will carry him through another election, and the most recent Gallup poll backs the majority up. The May poll showed the Tories holding steady with 48% support to the Liberals' 37% and the Socialist CCF's 9%. Less conclusive, perhaps, but the sort of news Diefenbaker takes to heart, was another Gallup poll. Of eleven countries polled, Canadians owned up to being the happiest...
Incomplete Returns. In Hot Springs, Ark., after being hired at $6 per person to tally the absentee vote in a bond election, three judges and three clerks unstuffed the ballot box, found only one ballot, which was voided because the voter had not paid his poll...
Party. As the potential leader of the Republican Party, Nixon has to worry about the political welfare of every other Republican candidate. A Gallup poll last week showed that, as of now, 60% of the electorate favored Democratic congressional candidates, with only 40% planning to vote for Republicans-the lowest congressional score ever polled by the G.O.P. Nixon must seek every means to corral the party's strays, reconcile its wide-ranging factions (from New York's liberal Jack Javits to Arizona's conservative Barry Goldwater), and mold the G.O.P. into a strong, united political force. Nixon...