Word: deweyitis
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...there was not much more which Pollster Roper could report about the presidential race. Said he: "My silence [in the future] on this point can be construed as an indication that Mr. Dewey is still so clearly ahead that we might just as well get ready to listen to his Inaugural...
...will be the next President of the U.S.? Just after Candidate Harry Truman set bravely off in pursuit of Candidate Tom Dewey (see below), a man who should be able to answer that question, if anybody can, announced his answer: Dewey. Writing in the New York Herald Tribune this week, Pollster Elmo Roper decided on the basis of his latest FORTUNE Survey that the election was as good as won before the campaign had even started...
...soundings, said Roper, showed Dewey leading Truman by the unbeatable margin of 44% to 31%-"an almost morbid resemblance to the Roosevelt-Landon figures as of about this time in 1936." In the face of those figures, only a "political convulsion" could keep Tom Dewey out of the White House next year...
...This is not a hare and tortoise race, and neither is it a race between two closely matched thoroughbreds ; it is a very ordinary horse race -a race in which one horse already has a commanding lead . . . My whole inclination is to predict the election of Thomas E. Dewey by a heavy margin and devote my time and efforts to other things...
Political prophets like Pollster Elmo Roper were publicly advising the President to throw in the sponge (see above). Eleanor Roosevelt practically conceded a Republican sweep; she included in one of her daily columns a friendly warning for President-apparent Tom Dewey on the problem of getting along with Congress. Heading back from a swing through the West, Columnist Marquis Childs reported the Pacific Coast in the bag for the Republicans, gave the Democrats a fighting chance in only five of eleven western states...