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Don’t trust the polls? Neither did The New York Times in 1956 (spoiler: it didn’t work out great)
In response to national pollsters’ failure in forecasting election outcomes in 1948 and 1952, The New York Times pursued in 1956 a weeks-long, multi-state exercise in on-the-ground reporting to assess ...
No antidote for bad polls: Recalling the New York Times’ 1956 election experiment in shoe-leather reporting
No antidote for bad polls The 1956 experiment in shoe-leather reporting was no rousing success. “There was some feeling,” ...
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Eisenhower 1956 Election Eve Program
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‘No antidote for bad polls’: Recalling the New York Times’ 1956 election experiment in shoe-leather reporting
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 ...