THE CAMPAIGN: Off & Running

Like an early swallow ushering in a new season, the first Gallup poll of the 1956 presidential campaign last week fixed the starting positions as well as they will ever be fixed. After asking voters across the U.S. which ticket they would now like to see win, Pollster George Gallup announced these results:

Eisenhower-Nixon . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52%

Stevenson-Kefauver . . . . . . . . . . . 41%

Undecided . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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