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When the Democratic Convention opened in Chicago, the Gallup Poll stood: President Roosevelt, 53%; Wendell Willkie, 47%. Another Gallup Poll taken in New York State before Convention's end gave New York to Willkie, 51%-to-49%. A week later Pennsylvania (where Dr. Gallup had previously found a growing Democratic sentiment) shifted: Willkie, 52%; Roosevelt...
Last week a FORTUNE Poll, taken between the Republican and Democratic Conventions, reported some of the most sensational reversals in public opinion to date, indicated that President Roosevelt would carry little outside the Solid South (see col. 3) if the election were held immediately after the Conventions. Salient FORTUNE findings...
Because the FORTUNE Poll forecast the 1936 popular vote within 2%, because New Dealers have long taken President Roosevelt's political invincibility for granted, poll findings made a deeper impression in Washington than elsewhere in the U. S. New Dealers solaced themselves with the belief that Wendell Willkie had reached the crest of his wave, would now decline. The FORTUNE Survey itself pointed out-"A public whose preferences are as fluid as the comparison of these returns indicates may react against the Republican candidate after the first delighted surprise at his nomination has worn off. And Willkie...
...down before the bombs and tank treads of Adolf Hitler's army, many a U. S. citizen realized for the first time that Dutch and French possessions in the Caribbean were strategic outposts of the U. S. defenses (see map supplement opposite p. 32). This week a Gallup poll showed that the average citizen had not only appraised the importance of the Caribbean, but had made up his mind what to do about...
...poll question was: "If Germany defeats England, should the U. S. take immediate possession of the English, French and Dutch territories in the area of the Panama Canal?" The answers...