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What are the facts? Against the predictions of all experts, the campaign provoked a phenomenal and unexpected increase in registration and voting. As late as Oct. 4, Pollster George Gallup had predicted that but 39,500,000 Americans would go to the polls. The final total will be some 6,000,000 more. In this big increase, P.A.C. had a definite and, perhaps, major share. P.A.C. concentrated on war workers and migrants in industrial centers, got them well registered, then on Election Day hauled them to the polls, while P.A.C. 's women minded the voters' babies at home...
...Gallup poll, after hanging squarely on the fence for days, made no final prediction, but totted up its election-eve total: Roosevelt, 51.5%; Dewey, 48.5%. In electoral votes, Gallup gave F.D.R. 18 sure states with 165 votes, Dewey ten sure states with 85 votes; and left 20 states with 281 votes in the balance...
There seemed little doubt that the election would be close, unless all the polls and the experts were wrong. Pollster Gallup gave Franklin Roosevelt a slight edge (51%) but had left himself plenty of room to get back off the limb. The FORTUNE survey, conducted by Elmo Roper, gave Candidate Roosevelt 53.5%, but it also pointed to the numerous imponderables that make poll-taking risky work in 1944. Some of them: 1) the soldier vote; 2) migrating war workers; 3) the difficulty of poll-taking under gas rationing; 4) the "silent vote." The one new development in the FORTUNE poll...
...Gallup Poll last month reported U.S. college graduates nearly 2-1 for Dewey...
...Britain's latest Gallup poll showed that 35% of Britons favored continuance of the Coalition after the war, 26% wanted a Labor Government. 12% backed the Conservatives...