As the reports came rolling in from the field last week, the top brass at Republican headquarters first blinked with pleasure, then reacted with suspicion. Out to the precincts went the word: "Check again." And almost invariably the rechecked answers were the same: Dwight
Eisenhower is steadily and unmistakably pulling away from Adlai Stevenson.
As the week wore on, less prejudiced guesstimates piled up. The Gallup poll showed the Eisenhower-Nixon popular vote holding steady at 52% (v. 55% at the same point in 1952), showed Stevenson-Kefauver down a percentage point since September...
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