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

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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 ...