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...week's end came the loudest boo, the harshest catcall Willkie had heard yet-the Gallup poll. From 78 electoral votes Willkie had dropped to 32. Franklin Roosevelt's score had risen from 453 to 499.*Willkie was conceded only six States-North and South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and the ancient stalwarts, Vermont and Maine. Only encouragement: in the big States, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Candidate Willkie had held his own, or nearly so, and was still within striking distance. But to believers in the summary of polls, the disenchantment was profound...
...spurned isolationist support and the backing of Father Coughlin; he had warned of the need for toil and sweat, sacrifice and hardship; he went up & down the land telling a people accustomed to hearing of its strength, of its present and future weaknesses. Last week's Gallup poll suggested that this course was not getting him many votes. But it was making him an increasingly able popularizer of one of the world's thorniest subjects-the relations of economics and government, and their relation to the lives of individual citizens. His strongest statements came in his assertions that...
...Reader Pease note that recent Gallup polls show Roosevelt ahead momentarily...
...help of a friendly President, a friendly Department of Agriculture, a friendly Congress and a just Supreme Court." In Woodward, Okla., he declared that Wendell Willkie would not be able to save the New Deal farm program-which he supports-from "its enemies in a Republican-dominated Congress." In Gallup, N. M., where he made parts of his speech in Spanish, he declared. "The two Americas must become one America," then moved on to California to spread the New Deal gospel in the same Hollywood Bowl where Willkie had attacked...
...Gallup poll last fortnight showed 58% of Kentucky's voters for Franklin Roosevelt. Editor Agar, after much soul-searching, spoke himself for Roosevelt too, and the Courier-Journal (like the Roosevelt-hating St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month) bought a page in the New York Times to announce its stand...