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Show The Salt lake Tribune, Wednesday, September 28, I960 Opinion Poll Eastern Vote Splits Near Evenfor60 i By Georg Gallup Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON, NJ. Sept 27 The rival 1960 ticket are running virtually even o far oathis year In the heavily p o p u lated states of the East In a s p e c a 1 x M m: 1 Gallup Poll analysis of the vote the New England and c states based upon all interviewing in Dr, Gallup these areas in 48 per the last six weeks cent of voters Interviewed Indicated a preference for the Kennedy-Johnsoticket, 47 per ticcent for the Nlxon-Lodg- e ket while a crucial 5 per cent who could tip the scales are undecided. either way ) from the IF THE VOTE in the Eastern states on Nov. S should split somewhere near the line as it likely would today it would mean a sharp In GOP strength In drop-of- f this region since 1956. Four years ago, the . ticket-swethe East polling 61 per cent of the popular vote of all 12 50-5- 0 hawer-Nlxon- pt states. IX THE COURSE of a comprehensive Interview, In which many- - aspects of voters political views were covered, Gallup Poll interviewers showed Eastern voters a card listing the tickets under their respective parties and asked this question: MIf the presidential election were being held today, which candidates would you vote for Nixon and Lodge or Kennedy end Johnson?" HERE WAS the vote among those who indicated that were registered or planned to.reg ister and planned to vote: EASTERN STATES Kennedy-Johnso- - ; A n Leah to Kennedy Johnson , ..... ......... Nlxon-Lodg- 48 A e Lean" to 47 8 Nlxon-Lodg- e Undecided the Gal- lup Poll asks those who Initially aay they are undecided, how they lean" as of the time of the interview. IT SHOULD be emphasized that the figures reported today apply to popular votes only, not to electoral votes. With an Impressive total of 153 electoral votes the Eastern states are naturally considered a prime target In national election campaigns. A total of 269 electoral vote are needed to win. In both the 1952 and 1956 eiectlohs, Mr. Eisenhower ran fs ahead of Stevenson In the East, reversing a Democratic v o pattern which I had existed s 1 n c e the early New Deal JSy dy- - Analysis of the 5theshowsvotethis shift East since t In 1932 to Elsenhower and the shift back to the Democrats. In the figures for the present survey, only those voters Indicating a preference have been included: VOTE IX PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS, Dem. Rep. 1932-195- 8 1. Give all the American people things our nation needs for a better, happier, noaore secure life. If enemy bombs wiped out half our steel duction, industry and government would consider it a major tragedy. Yet, today, half our pro- leaders g facilities mills are Soviet idle while booming. lay 150.000 of our Steelworkers are out of steel-makin- work. 350.000 others are on short-tim- e. NEW YORK, Sept 27 UP)-ThWhite House said Tuesday President Elsenhower will not hold a news conference Wednesday, as originally P r q s s Secretary planned. Jamea C, Hagerty announced this to newsmen at temporary White House headquarters at gave long and s seri- e Waldorf-Astori- a world leadership. good for our Steelworkers, good for all other Americans and good for our country: A shorter work-wee- k to give people jobs and paychecks to buy the products rolling out of automated factories. Machines dont buy goods. Only people have purchasing power. Real economic aid for distressed areas. School-buildiprograms to assure all our children of decent, educations. well-round- and pro grams to enable all our families to live in home-buildin- Slum-clearan- gs decency. Enough hospital facilities to cfcre for our people who need such facilities.1' g programs to serve an expanding population. And perhaps of most importance a Commission of Continuing Prosperity made - up of industry, government and union leader to keep its finger on the pulse of our economy and forge programs for economic Road-buildin- ... . David J. McDonald growth and We pledge our help! United Steelworkers Of America Ike Drops Confab the th ng And if we permit the slump in Steel to continue, millions of American workers in other industries will be victims of a snowballing recession. We Steelworkers are not prophets of gloom. We believe in the true greatness of our nation. But we think the time is long overdue for responsible leaders of industry and government to join with responsible leaders of labor In meeting the threats and winning the challenges we must face together. Steelworker-delegate- - life-or-dea- - 3,480 Delegates speaking for 1,250,000 Members 10th Constitutional Convention Atlantic City, September 22, 1960 ous study to these problems at our recent International Convention. We mapped an Invest In America program which, we sincerely believe, will be , 2. End the long recession in Steel which now threatens to engulf all of America. 3. Put our Steelworkers back to work with to turn out the steel our nation needs in the race for We ask leaders of Industry and Government to join with our Union in an Invest In America program which would . . . In questioning voters about Candidate preferences, I. W. Abel, ' David J. McDonald, President Secretary-Treasur- er Charles J. Smith, Director, . HoteL ft v 3 jgj J mi u District-3- 1 - . 3 X'V- Howard R. Hague, - 8 - v vt V i 1 i A'. A r Of f . 21 Dinosaur Land VERNAL, UTAH 'V. - Vice-Preside- nt |
