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After predicting the winners of the previous five elections, The Literary Digest (based on cards mailed in by its readers) predicted that Alf Landon would win by a large margin. George Gallup predicted a Roosevelt win, based on statistical random sampling within 1.1 percent of the Literary Digest results.
George Horace Gallup (November 18, 1901 – July 26, 1984) was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a statistically-based survey sampled measure of public opinion.
In the United States, presidential job approval ratings were first conducted by George Gallup (estimated to be 1937) to gauge public support for the president of the United States during their term. An approval rating is a percentage determined by polling which indicates the percentage of respondents to an opinion poll who approve of a ...
1.2 Richard Nixon vs George McGovern (Post-Election) ... polls that were conducted relating to the 1972 United States presidential election. ... Gallup [4] Feb. 4–7 ...
Polls misfired during the election campaigns of 2012, 2016, and 2020. Their collective performance four years ago was their worst since 1980. ... the would-be biographer of George Gallup ...
Other leading pollsters of the day, George Gallup and Archibald Crossley, likewise predicted Dewey’s victory. Both of them ended their polling in October, well before the 1948 election.
Fifty-one percent of Americans approve of the way President-elect Trump has handled his presidential transition, according to a new Gallup survey. It’s a slightly higher number than in December ...
Poll source Date(s) administered Jimmy Carter (D) Ronald Reagan (R) Eugene McCarthy (I) Other Undecided Margin Harris [1]: January 5–14, 1976 33% 50%