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...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...
Senators and Representatives who fear the millions of "farm voters." To farm-bloc members, the Gallup poll meant nothing, though it showed the nation 71% for the President's bill, only 11% against. Well each Congressman knows that one enemy in his district is more potent than ten friends. The lobby had three powerful leaders in the House: Georgia's Paul Brown, Alabama's Henry B. Steagall, South Carolina's Hampton P. Fulmer-Southern politicians all, who have passed their Democratic primaries, and trust the public's memory will fade inside another two years...
...Gallup poll found 84% of car owners willing to accept gas rationing, 13% against, 3% undecided; 61% in favor of a 35-mile speed limit, 36% opposed, 3% undecided...
...Optimists. A TIME poll of major-league bigwigs revealed brave optimism. Big-league clubs are hopefully arranging for spring training, for exhibition games and hotel accommodations...