Wallace predicts Roosevelt victory
Flint, Michigan (UP) –
Vice President Henry A. Wallace, delivering the third of nine scheduled addresses during a three-day tour of Michigan, last night predicted that President Roosevelt would carry the nation “by at least three million votes” over Governor Thomas E. Dewey with three-fourths of the states casting Democratic ballots.
Mr. Wallace expressed confidence in a “decisive, perhaps overwhelming victory for President Roosevelt” during a five-minute national broadcast which preceded his half-hour address before an audience of 2,000 which jammed the Industrial Mutual Association Auditorium.
The vice president, who earlier spoke at Lansing and at Jackson, estimated a total vote of at least 50 million in the coming election.
States outside of the South and border states that Mr. Wallace thought would vote Democratic included Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin, New York, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri and Massachusetts. Mr. Roosevelt, he said, would carry Michigan by 100,000.
Poll of writers favors Roosevelt
Albany, New York (UP) –
A second poll of newspaper and radio correspondents accompanying Governor Thomas E. Dewey on his last campaign trip shows that 40 believed President Roosevelt will be reelected, 10 think the Republican candidate will win and one correspondent is undecided.
The poll was conducted by CBS. CBS made a similar poll last Sept. 27, at which time 35 members of the press party thought the President would win a fourth term, five thought Mr. Dewey would be elected and eight correspondents either were uncertain or declined to say.
Today’s poll also revealed that 28 of the newsmen personally favored Governor Dewey, 17 for Mr. Roosevelt, four were undecided and two wanted neither the Republican nor the Democratic candidate. In the first poll, 21 favored Mr. Roosevelt, 18 were for Governor Dewey and nine were undecided.