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The Confidential Guide attempts to sample all members of the courses it lists; actual return on the polls runs about 30 to 50 percent. The comparison with national public opinion polling seems hardly valid: in such surveys, a small error can cause a faulty prediction; the Confidential Guide makes no...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Questions Confy Guide | 9/26/1950 | See Source »

Though the Democrats benefited by some such mistakes, the incumbent Republicans got 85% of the votes, many of them acquired by cheating. Next Sunday Turkey will have its second free, and perhaps its first fair election. The Democrats refused to take part until a new law guaranteed them observers at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Second Free, First Fair | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

In the sophomore race, Chase Nebeker Peterson of Ogden, Utah, and Winthrop House and Richard Totten Button of Englewood, New Jersey, and Lowell House, both Council incumbents, ran away with the election, polling 70 percent of the class vote. Peterson and Button early reached the quota, 204 votes, which guaranteed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polk, Skinner Top '51 Council Ballot; '52, '53 Pick Five | 5/5/1950 | See Source »

Jerome S. Bruner, associate professor of Psychology and an expert on polling techniques, noted yesterday that written comments on polls are usually of a "negative" or purely destructive nature. The low incidence of such remarks on the questionnaires was unusual, he said.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burke Invites All Abolition Petitions Approved by Dean | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

"And It Was Obvious, . . ." On election day, polls open at 6 a.m. Polling places provide day nurseries where mothers can leave their babies while they vote. Some polling places feature string orchestras for the voters' entertainment. The ballot bears a single name, that of the official "bloc" candidate. To...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Delusion on Sunday | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

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