Evening star., 1960-11-07
Final Gallup Poll Gives
10 Edge to Kennedy

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PRINCETON, N. j., Nov. II
(AP).-The Gallup Polls final
Nationwide survey of the pres
idential race shows the follow
ing division Of the popular vote
among likely voters:
Kennedy johnson. 40 perl
cent.
Nixon-Lodge, 48 per cent.
Undecided, 3 per cent.
George Gallup, director of
the American Institute of Pub
lie Opinion. gave the figures in
a copyrighted story under its
byline.
Mr.. Gallup also said in part:
Considering only those voters
who expressed a preference,
the division would be:
Kennedy johnson, 81 per
cent.
Nixon-Lodge, 40 per cent.
The result of the election to-
may lie in the hands
of an estimated 2 million
voters who were undecided on
their choice as late as Friday
night.
Up to November 4
These results are based upon
interviewing conducted during
the period November / through
Friday, November 4. This final
survey, therefore, does not reg
lister the impact of President
Eisenhower's campaigning in
the final days nor the last
minute appeals and efforts on I
television by Vice President
Nixon and Senator Kennedy.
Mr.. Gallup said the Insti-
tute's error has averaged be-
tween 3 and 4 percentage
points during the Is years since ,
its founding in 1885.
He said the size of the sample i,
used in today's final report is
about 5000 interviews. =,
New York Poll
NEW YORK, Nov. Z (AP).-l
The New York Daily News says
the final tabulation of 10000
straw votes in its poll indicates
Senator Kennedy will win New
York's As electoral votes by a
clear-cut majority.
The poll showed Senator
Kennedy with a Statewide
edge of 6-5 over Vice President
Nixon. It forecast IAN old
Democratic turnout
in New York City" with deep
Democratic inroads into nor
mally Republican strongholds
elsewhere, The News said this
morning.
Senator Kennedy got 54.8
per cent of the straw votes
and Mr.. Nixon got 45.2.
No New Trends
Senator Kennedy had topped
Mr.. Nixon in the poll from the
start. The newspaper said there
was nothing in the closing
week to indicate any new trend.
Senator Kennedy got 64.5
per cent of the New York City
straws. Mr.. Nixon led 55.1 per
cent in suburban counties and
52.1 per cent upstate.
"These percentages clearly
indicate that Kennedy's New
York City vote will be too big
for the rest of the State to
overcome" the News said.
Illinois Trends
CHICAGO, Nov. 7 (AP).-
The Chicago Sun-Times says
final returns in it's Statewide
straw poll indicate Senator
Kennedy will carry Illinois but
only by a razor-thin margin.
Projections based on $4,000
ballots suggest the Democratic
presidential candidate will de-
feat Vice President Nixon by
10000 votes. the newspaper
said.
Thin Margin
But this margin is so small,
the Sun-Times said, that a
switchover of less than per
cent of the vote could throw
Illinois 27 electoral votes into
the Nixon column. |
Senator Kennedy's State
wide majority would double,
on the other hand, if / per cent |
of the voters swung the other
way.
Final returns give Senator |
Kennedy 51.83 per cent of the
votes, Mr.. Nixon Alt.
In other races, the poll gives
Senator Douglas 56.83 per cent
and his Republican opponent,
Sameul w. Witwer, 43.17; Otto
Kerner, Democratic candidate
for Governor, received 57.25 per
cent to 52.17 for Gov. William
G. Stratton.
Nixon Leads in Iowa
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