Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Netherlands East Indies the Japanese suddenly discovered a fresh wave of "anti-Japanese sentiment." This caused the Tokyo Government to deliver a strong note of protest to Netherlands Minister General J. C. Pabst. Since the Japanese have failed to get all the oil they want from the East Indies, this protest looked like the beginning of a new economic holdup. The Japanese have always considered it fair to shoot a recalcitrant holdup victim...
Sticking to that last, he reported in his FORTUNE Survey that popular sentiment for Roosevelt was 61.7% in 1936. The popular vote was 60.2%. Last week he reported that the popular sentiment for Roosevelt five days before election was 55.2%. The popular vote, as closely as it could be calculated from late returns this week was 54.6% for Roosevelt. He had reduced his over-all error to less than...
...American Opinion Forecasts poll, conducted by Edward J. Wall* on a scientific sampling basis, reported a 52% Roosevelt sentiment. This was the same as Gallup's prediction, but Mr. Wall allowed himself a statistical error of 2%, definitely predicted that Roosevelt would win the popular vote although Willkie might have a majority on the electoral college. But in 1940, as in 1936, the closest estimate of the popular vote was made by quiet, curly-haired Elmo Burns Roper, who has never made any great hullabaloo because he was one of the first to undertake political polls by the scientific...
...than the election itself." But he also insists on the limitations of his polls. He steadfastly refuses to make any forecast of electoral votes. The important and proper use of his political surveys is, he insists, not to predict elections but to obtain an over-all view of popular sentiment on public issues...
That this enmity between press and government worked both ways was proved last fortnight when Editor & Publisher gave out results of its final campaign survey of newspaper sentiment. Editor & Publisher found 64% of the U. S. daily press (with a combined circulation of 20,709,156) for Republican Nominee Wendell Willkie. For Franklin Roosevelt were only 23% (circulation: 7,552,137). Neutral or undecided were 13%-which meant in many cases normally Democrat papers, which would not declare for a Republican candidate, but had no use for Roosevelt either...