Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wendell Willkie, still the great amateur among politicians, once again found himself in the position of having to fight from behind: his opponents had been in the field long before he had, sounding out sentiment, lining up votes. He was guilty of a possible tactical error: fighting Schroeder with a principle instead...
...could the nation's press take claim for much astute reporting. It, too, completely failed to gauge the breadth of Republican sentiment. One reporter who had sensed the trend was the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's able, amiable Irving Dilliard, who, in the New Republic on Sept. 7 set down a multitude of reasons for possible big Republican gains. Some of them: dissatisfaction with the military, failure to come to grips with inflation, politics as usual, "feather bed" regulations for labor, bungling censorship, Congress' descending reputation...
Senators, especially those up for reelection, shuddered as they thought of the teetotal sentiment they might have to face back home. They could have saved their shudders. The yowl of the nation's wets was a little late, but it was loud...
...Gallup poll, which as late as mid-August had reported probable Democratic gains in the House in November, indicated that, on the basis of present sentiment, Republicans would gain 21 seats, mostly in Eastern and Midwest States...
...last week the Communist Party's ragamuffin had grown in public sentiment to a full-sized martyr, and Herbert Morrison, whose minority party exists by trade-union support, had no kidney for a test of strength...