Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Teen-agers in 50 states, voting on a presidential ballot circulated by Wesleyan University's three school publications, picked Nixon (441,900) over Kennedy (324,065). Overall, the Democrats (Kennedy, Stevenson, Johnson, Humphrey and Symington) won 515,466 votes against Nixon. Wesleyan's 1956 classroom poll of nonvoters came within 1.3% of predicting the proportion of the popular vote given Eisenhower...
...Kennedy-leaning favorite son of his state's 51-vote Democratic delegation, predicted Michigan would go heavily next November for any Democrat except Lyndon Johnson. Johnson, said Williams, "might" carry Michigan, but the party "stands for a more liberal and progressive policy than he represents." A Detroit News poll gave Kennedy more votes than all other Democrats combined (63%), put Stevenson second...
...Real Issue." Well aware that defeat in West Virginia's popularity poll (it has no binding effect on delegates) would be interpreted as a death notice, Kennedy switched from the white-glove tactics he had used in Wisconsin. In a three-day foray he struck at Humphrey as a "hatchet man" who could not win the nomination himself but was "being used" by Texas' Lyndon Johnson and Missouri's Stuart Symington in a "stop-Kennedy" gang-up. Retorted Humphrey: "He's acting like a spoiled juvenile...
After an anxious early-morning hour, the heads of the services came to Miraflores Palace, joined with the President in a phone poll of the garrisons and the state governors. At 7 a.m., Betancourt walked to waiting microphones, and announced over the radio: "The air, ground and naval forces support the government...
Died. Beardsley Ruml, 65, economic idea man who thought up the pay-as-you-go tax plan, got it accepted by a reluctant Congress in 1943 with the support of much of the press and, according to a Gallup poll, 83% of the nation's rich, 86% of its poor; of a heart ailment; in Danbury, Conn, on the day U.S. taxes became due. After a lively term as dean of social sciences at the University of Chicago from 1931 to 1933. Ruml became treasurer of Macy's, overhauled its accounting system. Some of his ideas found their...