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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...
High Navy officials were mightily pleased last week with the results of a poll taken among the Navy's 226,050 reserve officers. To the question-Would you like to transfer to the regular Navy after the war?-60% had already sent replies and 80% of those were...
After taking its own informal poll, the Herald Tribune reported: "Not one of the men questioned said he intended remaining in the Navy. . . . The reasons given were low pay, promotion by the calendar instead of merit, competition with Naval Academy men, red tape, normal resentment arising from being forced to take orders from obviously incompetent superiors...