No Prediction By Gallup
CHICAGO, Oct. 18 Dr. George Gallup, head of the Gallup Poll, has declined to predict the winner of the American Presidential election next month. He said in an address in Chicago that because of a “religious issue” in the current Presidential campaign and a lack of “great enthusiasm” for either candidate, no poll had any scientific basis for making a prediction. Dr. Gallup said that the 1948 Presidential election "has induced a certain caution into pollsters’ thinking.” That year, contrary to the predictions of most polls, Mr Harry Truman returned to the White House by defeating Mr Thomas Dewey.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29339, 19 October 1960, Page 17
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103No Prediction By Gallup Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29339, 19 October 1960, Page 17
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