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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, SOUTH CAROLINA Thursday, November 23, 1944
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POLLS
Success
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i The repeated success ot election
polls, such as those conducted by
Dr. George Gallup and by Fortune
magazine, point the way for our
government to become a “govern
ment of the people” in fact as well
as in name.
. During the past four years there
have been many occasions when
congress and the president seemed
ito pay little attention to the will of
,the people. This was particularly
noticeable in regard to the unwill-
jingness of our government le>iers
;to take any strong action to out
law strikes during wartime. While
Ipublic demand for strike control
jwas strongest, public opinion polls
[showed that a great majority of
!the people, and even a majority of
,1a bor union members, favored
strong action.
But it was possible that no ade
quate action was taken because
Jcongress and the president did not
'believe the polls and knew that a
llot of the public looked upon them
>with suspicion. There wasn’t
[enough faith in public opinion polls
!for the government to consider the
,’results to be a mandate from the
(people. Therefore, although the
polls were closely studied in Wash-
'ington, they were not generally
'used as a basis for legislation.
The fact that IJr. Gallup and For-
itune eiagazine came very close in
predicting the presidential election
^will give them somewhat greater
acceptance, from now on. There is
iano doubt, because of the wide pub
licity given to presidential polls,
Xhat they are more respected to-
<lay than they were on November 6.
OPINION . . . Accuracy
* Dr. Gallup claims to be able to
^predict election results within a
jlhree to four per cent margin of er
ror. A check-up of the predictions
iie made the day before election
show that he was within this mar
gin in almost every state. As far
!as the total vote went, he predicted
dt within 2 per cent of the final re
sults.
> I don’t see how anyone could ex
pect a prediction more accurate
|than that. When you consider the
{facts that some people interviewed
jrobably didn’t tell the truth about
low they would vote, others shifted
leir decisions between the time
icy were interviewed and the
le they went to the polls, and,
ithers didn’t vote because of bad
jWeather conditions, it is -apparent
jthat no poll-maker, except through
heer luck, could hit the nail right
the head.
The consistent close results ob-
lined in polls of elections con-
lucted by the Gallup method leave
ittle doubt that such polls do ex
press public opinion almost as ac-
rately as the election itself. In
some research men argue that
poll is the more honest of the
;two—for a poll expresses the opin
ion of a cross-section of all of the
!people while many millions fail to
show x up to vote on election day.
VOTES . . . Clarification
i I do not think the time has come
Jwhen congressmen should just be
(rubber stamps who will wait for
:the Gallup figures on the public’s
attitude toward legislation and then
vote accordingly.
But I do think the Gallup poll,
and any other poll which has been
' proven accurate, can be used to
great advantage in giving the
people an opportunity to clarify the
votes they cast in the election.
One great objection among voters
who are not entirely satisfied with
•either candidate is that they have
,110 opportunity to express their rea
sons for dissatisfaction. Many a
voter in this election, for example,
voted for the reelection of Presi
dent Roosevelt because he felt that
the president could do the best
job of handling foreign relations
or bringing the war to a victorious
conclusion. But that same voter
may have been greatly dissatis
fied with the president’s handling
of domestic affairs. If so, he un
doubtedly wished there were some
way he could make the voting ma
chine register this fact. He would
like to have been able to make it
clear that, although he was voting
for the president, his vote did not
imply full approval of the presi
dent’s policies.
It seems to me that Dr. Gallup
and Fortune magazine could per
form an invaluable service right
now, before the next congress con
venes, by taking up, one by one,
the things the president stands for
and finding out on which questions
he has the backing of the majority
of the people and on which he does
not. By doing that the people would
at least have a chance to give
full meaning to their votes. ,
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