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...free peoples to frame a Federal Constitution under which they may unite in a Democratic World Government?" Vote in favor of Democratic World Federation: 140,967. Against: 46,882. The fact that most of the local politicians running for office had opposed the referendum seems to prove Dr. Gallup's thesis: the public is usually far ahead of its political "leaders" in its thinking on most issues. Harvard Committee for Federal Union...
...Republicans, out of office, had fewer officially famous men to sound the tocsin in their behalf. Their candidates had to campaign with less Olympian aid. Nevertheless, the Gallup poll showed them winning somewhere between five and 25 seats in the House...
...were asking for more help from Franklin Roosevelt for their candidate for Governor, John J. Bennett. The New York Daily News's poll showed Republican Thomas E. Dewey leading even in usually Democratic New York City, gave Dewey a 59%-to-36% lead in the State. (A semifinal Gallup poll gave Dewey the advantage, 51%-to-41%, but showed a Bennett comeback.) In Massachusetts, Republicans now felt certain that their handsome Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. would beat off the threat of determined Congressman Joseph E. Casey (still waiting for a Roosevelt blessing...
...Danger is not yet acute-but the possibilities of danger are. The latest political analyses from all over the U.S. show that the Republicans are just about sure of a gain of 21 seats in the House, are running neck-&-neck for another 20-odd seats. If the Gallup poll trend should continue, the Republicans might conceivably win the House-the Speakership and the right to take over the chairmanships of all committees*. But for control they must win 52 seats. The possibility is there, but it is not a probability for the Republicans in Congress have no more brilliant...
...Gallup poll showed Republican Thomas E. Dewey leading the field with 53% of the votes to 37% for Bennett and 10% for the American Labor Party's Dean Alfange, who claimed to be "the only New Deal candidate." But the same poll showed that many a stanch Republican who could not stomach ambitious Tom Dewey was swinging into the Bennett camp-on the theory that a vote for Bennett was also a vote against Roosevelt. The only way Franklin Roosevelt could really help Jack Bennett was to sway labor's votes away from Alfange, without disturbing the Republican...