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...Illinois, Colonel Patterson's cousin, multimillionaire Isolationist Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, simultaneously conducted a poll in his Chicago Tribune on the same question. Of 257,484 post cards mailed to every tenth voter, 77,229 (30%) answered: Yes (for war), 14,176, or 18.36%; No (against war), 62,394, or 80.79%. These figures checked almost exactly with Dr. Gallup's month-by-month poll of Illinois sentiment. Obvious conclusion: Colonel McCormick would have saved thousands of dollars by reading Dr. Gallup's polls, which regularly appear in the rival Chicago Daily News...
People and businesses have moved out of Jersey City like the Israelites from the land of Egypt. Moaned the New Jersey Voter, taxpayers' watchdog: 50 to 60% of mortgaged private homes have been foreclosed. Population has dropped from 316,715 to 301,173 in ten years, while neighboring cities showed population spurts. Empty windows, deserted, ramshackle buildings, line Jersey City's tired streets...
Charging that Plan E violates the clause in the Massachusetts constitution giving each voter an equal right to vote for the man of his choice, two Cambridge voters brought a test case before the state supreme court...
Since under plan E a quota is set for the number of votes needed to place a man in office, and any surplus ballots go to the voter's listed choice, the opponents charged that the people are unable to vote for the man of their choice...
...will not send our army, naval, or air force to fight in foreign lands outside the Americas except in case of attack." So said Franklin Roosevelt on the eve of his election to a third term. That sentiment was a plank in the personal platform of almost every voter on November 4; there can be no doubt that "short of war" expressed the will of John Doe and family. It is this fact which makes the current furore over the Ellender Amendment to the Lease-Lend Bill seem a little incongruous, and also just a little alarming. The amendment rules...