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OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON
December 8, 1954
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Dear Dr. Gallup:
I noted with a great deal of interest the report in the
Washington Post of your remarks at the meeting of the District of
Columbia Political Science Association on December 4.
If a copy is available, I would appreciate the opportunity
to read the full text of the statement you made at that time.
I was particularly interested in the fact that you exploded
the rather commonly held misapprehension that the vote on November
2 was a large one. I recall listening to the returns on television
and radio on Election Eve, and commentator after commentator kept
reminding the listening audience that the vote was one of the biggest
in the history of off-year elections. As a matter of fact, when I
saw the final results a few days later it was apparent that the total
vote from a percentage standpoint was smaller than the vote cast in
the Congressional elections of 1950. It that some
of
the
commentators were emphasizing the "big vote" early in the evening
as the results were coming in, due to the fact that several of the
Republican campaigners, including myself, had stated in the last
few days before election that the Republicans would win provided
the vote was big enough but that if the vote was small we ran a
considerable risk of losing
I know you realize that those of us who were making this
statement were probably subconsciously or otherwise trying to trim
in the event we suffered defeat I am also inclined to think that
some of the commentators who were hoping that we would lose wanted
to create the idea in the public mind that when it appeared early
in the evening that there might be a landslide for the Democratic
ticket that the vote was big and that therefore there was no excuse
for the Republicans not winning.
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