No antidote for bad polls The 1956 experiment in shoe-leather reporting was no rousing success. “There was some feeling,” ...

Former President Eisenhower received the best favorability rating, with 84 percent supporting him in Gallup’s 1956 poll ... With two weeks until Election Day, Harris and Trump are nearly ...

To cover the 1956 presidential election, the Times de-emphasized opinion polls in favor of its own intensive, on-the-ground reporting that focused on states where the presidential race was ...