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...Midstream. *Pollster Rogers Dunn privately produced a poll last week giving Willkie 331 electoral votes, Roosevelt...
...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...
...Wendell Willkie. He grinned at the poll. The hulking crusader refused to be convinced. Little mattered to him except his belief that something dangerous and disastrous will happen to the U. S. if Franklin Roosevelt is reelected. And he knew that at last people were listening to him, that millions of minds had not yet been irrevocably made up. It was still 1940. There was still time for a political miracle. But not much time. The hour, in his own words, was "terribly late...
...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...
Wendell Willkie, his tousled hair and his ingratiating smile have captured the hearts and votes of the majority of Radcliffe girls, according to a student poll made public last Friday, the day that the Republican nominee appeared in Cambridge...