Word: polling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Brooklyn, Connecticut, site of the CRIMSON's pre-election poll, re-affirmed its status as a bellwether area last Tuesday, once again voting for the national winner. The hamlet gave President-elect Kennedy 890 votes to vice-President Richard M. Nixon...
Last week some results of the polls that poll-minded Jack Kennedy referred to in the TV debates leaked out to the press (the Eisenhower Administration refused to release them). If taken at face value, they confirmed Kennedy's contention that U.S. prestige has declined. Taken for the purpose of guiding U.S. Information Agency policies, the polls were designed to measure public opinion about the relative power of the U.S. and Russia. Prevailing opinion, as developed by the pollsters: Russia is ahead of the U.S. Polls taken shortly after the collapse of the summit meeting last May showed...
...survey in ten countries in mid-June showed that in all except one a majority thought that Russia was ahead of the U.S. in military power, and would be farther ahead by 1970. A subsequent poll reported that lagging U.S. space programs had caused a rise in neutralism and "this be lief, nurtured by propaganda and fear of reprisals, has led to a growing concern about harboring U.S. military bases...
...Normally Republican San Diego County may come close to a standoff because of slackening production in the airframe industry. On the other side: Nixon commands strong suburban and rural sympathies and native-son loyalties, has a lithe, tough organization. This week's edition of the authoritative Field California poll gives Kennedy 48%, Nixon 45% and undecided 7%. UNPREDICTABLE...
...York (45): "We're in trouble," grumbles a New York Republican chieftain. New York City's historically Democratic minority groups will deliver a whopping Kennedy majority. The New York Daily News poll, which has been in the money in every major election since 1948, reads it Kennedy by 56% to 44%. KENNEDY...