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Last week the poll takers of the nation were on trial and knew it. Four years ago, the practice of taking straw votes went out with a crash. The greatest of all straw polls, the Literary Digest's, took 2,376,523 straw votes by mail, and not only backed the wrong candidate but erred by 19% on the popular vote. It was a catastrophe to the Digest. It also left most of the pollsters who sprang up in the Digest's wake trembling in their boots for fear the Digest's fate might overtake them...
...Roosevelt . . . with a minimum of 427 electoral votes. . . . We allow [Willkie] a maximum of nine States - an aggregate of 58 votes." Joseph W. Martin Jr.: "Willkie and McNary will receive a minimum of 324 electoral votes ... the Republicans will capture at least 60 additional seats in the House. . . ." Pathfinder Poll (owner: Emil Hurja): "Willkie victory with 353 electoral votes ... he may get as many as 385. . . ." Joseph Dunninger (spiritualist investigator) : "Thomas Jefferson thinks Roosevelt is as good as in. McKinley says it's Willkie." Arthur Sears Henning (Chicago Tribune): "For Willkie, 280; for Roosevelt, 182; doubtful, 69." Wall Poll...
...Fortune Poll: Roosevelt: 55.2% of voters who had made up their minds but with Roosevelt votes so concentrated that he had big majorities only in the West South Central, East South Central and South Atlantic States, a tiny margin on the Pacific Coast. Willkie: all other sections of the U. S., mostly by margins too small to be conclusive...
...York Daily News Poll: "Franklin D. Roosevelt will win New York State's 47 electoral votes by a plurality ... so small that the race is a foto finish...
Late returns in the CRIMSON's presidential poll last night found Wendell Willkie still well out in front of President Roosevelt, with a majority of 640. This was a ten-ballot increase over his 630 lead of Friday night. The final score: Willkie 234b, Roosevelt 1705, Thomas 177, Browder...