The Pittsburgh Press (August 1, 1944)
GOP confident
New York –
Republican National Committee Chairman Herbert Brownell Jr. yesterday predicted a Republican victory in November with a possible margin of 45 electoral votes on the basis of latest figures from public opinion polls which show the Dewey-Bricker ticket leading in six key states.
Mr. Brownell, on the eve of his departure for the Republican Governors’ Conference in St. Louis, said Republicans need a gain of only five percent in 19 other states to win an electoral vote of 311, and asserted that the present “trend” indicated the prospects for the gain in these states was likely. He referred to the Gallup Poll in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York and Ohio, and the Des Moines Register newspaper poll in Iowa, in making his prediction.