Most Important Question

Last week the Gallup poll took a sounding on 18 prospective presidential candidates. The first choice, by a large margin, was General Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Ike led in every section of the country. In the West, runner-up was California's Earl Warren, in the Middle West Ohio's Robert Taft, in the East and the South Truman. The ranking choices:

Eisenhower. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 %

Truman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 %

MacArthur. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 %

Taft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 %

Warren. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 %

Stassen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 %

Dewey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 %

Barkley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 %

F. D. Roosevelt Jr. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3%

Potential Taft support is probably greater than these figures indicate. MacArthur is almost certainly "not available," and much of his support may be transferrable to Taft.

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