Opening the presidential poll season for 1960, George Gallup asked Democrats and Republicans who they favored for their own party nominations. Results: among Democrats. Tennessee's never-hear-die Senator Estes Kefauver (with 29%) led Massachusetts' eager Senator John Kennedy (23%); among Republicans, Vice President Richard Nixon easily outdistanced California's Senator William Knowland (48% to 12%). Last week Pollster Gallup began pairing the top Democrats against the top Republicans, got these answers:
Kennedy 51%
Knowland 37%
Undecided 12%
Kefauver 45%
Nixon 41%
Undecided 14%
Kennedy . . 48%
Nixon 43%
Undecided 9%
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