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Governor Dewey's statement upset many and old-line GOPolitician. (Said Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft: "That was a fool thing to do.") Leaders close to National Chairman Harrison E. Spangler went ahead with preconference plans to draft a policy which would offend no one. Some observers prophesied that this draft would be the only politically feasible result of Mackinac. But those wise in the ways of politcal campaigns guessed that Dewey was flying the popular beam...
...Presidential Candidate Wallace anointed him the only true St. George. In Washington Republican politicians fumed with frustration. As GOPropaganda in an ironic vein, Missouri's Congressman Dewey Short croaked: "Franklin Roosevelt is not running against Wendell Willkie. He's running against Adolf Hitler.'' Many a GOPolitician moaned privately: "With Willkie a poor third." Polls showed that Willkie vas ho'.dmg his own, momentarily. He still drew curious crowds. But these things failed to cheer many Republican politicians. In their gloomy minds, they recalled the black year of 1936 when Alf Landon had had an early...
...Wilfred J. Funk, who himself had wagered no money on the election, featured on his magazine's first page a small facsimile Digest cover encircling the legend, "IS OUR FACE RED!" Beneath this he printed a cartoon by Edmund Duffy of the Baltimore Sun in which a battered GOPolitician clutches a horsewhip and growls into a telephone: "Literary Digest? Lemme talk to the editor!" Surrounding text went...