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Opinion polling during presidential elections seems to be more pervasive than ever. Does America need a minimum daily requirement of political polls in election years?

An "accidental" President who antagonized the left and right wings of his party, Truman was given no chance of reelection. His upset win confounded the experts.

Peters' book provides an excellent account of how Wendell Willkie won the 1940 Republican presidential nomination and enabled FDR to aid Britain and pass a draft.

Harry S Truman, remembered today as a generally great President, made a number of very memorable decisions during his first term, including that to use "the bomb."

Harry Truman, despite his current status as one of America's greatest Presidents, found his second term dogged by the lowest Presidential poll numbers ever recorded.

Political election polls in presidential elections survived and thrived despite some high profile blunders by leading polling organizations such as Gallup's Poll in 1948.

Sarah Palin is upper echelon when it comes to descent from the nation's colonial era founding families in New England.

Windsor, Connecticut's first English settlement, was founded by settlers from Plymouth and Dorchester, Massachusetts, invited by Indians to mediate between tribes.

H.L. Mencken was one of the most prominent newspaper men of his time, known for his crisp style and ready wit.

Truman's re-election stunned a young polling industry. The pollsters blew it, experts questioned their procedures, and the public pondered the value of political polls.

Accuracy in presidential election polling can provide accurate predictions within limitations. However, significant historical errors haunt the opinion polling industry.

The GOP has been kind to repeat candidates like John McCain, but the Democratic Party has traditionally rejected second time candidates like John Edwards and Joe Biden.

Only four vice presidents that filled out the term of a deceased chief executive would win reelection in their own right and all four lived in the 20th Century.

During George Gallup's career, he did not miss the mark too often as he predicted future U.S. presidents. But, in the 1948 election, he blew it and was nearly ruined.

Hoping to throw the election of 1948 into the House of Representatives, Southern "Dixiecrats" mobilized to stop federal anti-segregationist legislation.

President Truman, now considered by many to have been a great President, was dogged throughout his time in office by low approval ratings and tough decisions.