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...According to a Gallup poll last fortnight, more people (24%) in the South want to go to war with Germany than in any other part...
...George Gallup (Institute of Public Opinion) last week reported a 1% increase in Willkie's popular vote (to 45%); an increase of 85 in electoral votes (from 32 to 117); a gain of five States...
This was not so large a Roosevelt majority as indicated by the Gallup Poll, but was probably a reasonable estimate, considering that Dr. Gallup himself pointed out last week that his poll indicated that Willkie's strength, except in the South, was considerably greater than Landon's had been four years...
...Gallup poll this week reported that 17% of the voters favored having the U. S. enter World War II. This was a smaller pro-war minority than there was last June when France fell (19%), but it had grown since July, when it was down to 15%. More significantly, willingness to fight if need be had grown more rapidly than eagerness to fight. Whereas in May only 36% of the voters thought aid to Britain more important than avoiding all risk of war, in September the number willing to take that chance had risen...
Gruff Hugh S. Johnson, who regards polls as public evils "not to be swallowed whole," offered to eat his syndicated Scripps-Howard column if the Gallup poll should prove correct this fall. Dr. George Horace Gallup accepted and replied: "My newspaper existence will end if I fail to predict the election correctly, but General Johnson will only have to eat a page* of newspaper print...