Election 1944: Gallup Polls

November 28
Roosevelt administration

Interviewing Date 11/11-16/43
Survey #306-K
Question #3

Those voters in New York, New Jersey, and Kentucky who shifted to the Republican Party at the last election were asked: What do you like least about the way the Roosevelt administration is handling things?

The following reasons are listed in order of frequency of mention:

  • Incompetent and dictatorial management of home affairs
  • Coddling of labor
  • Government extravagance
  • Failure to keep prices down
  • Bad job of rationing