Word: polling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Five months before the election college students throughout the country show a definite leaning towards the Democratic party the results of a national poll indicated yesterday...
Taken by the Student Opinion Servers of America with the assistance of college newspapers, the poll was directed at qualified voting college students and the students as a whole...
...State after State of a steady decline in the Democratic fortunes, a decline so profound as to give every prospect of a clear Republican victory in November. The shift toward the G. O. P. was now so marked that nothing short of a Rooseveltian miracle, it appeared to poll-parrots, could save the election for the Democrats...
While the majority of those answering the poll did not approve of allowing American materials to be sold to any country at war, they went on record as approving legislation making them available to the so-called democratic countries, 54.3 per cent wanted the Constitution changed to require a national vote before Congress could draft men for overseas service...
...Roosevelt could be dispensed with by wishful thinking, next in favor for the Chief Executive's seat would be Thomas E. Dewey, according to the poll, who, with 33.8 per cent favorable votes, holds a commanding 3 to 1 lead over his nearest rival, Paul V. McNutt...