The Pittsburgh Press (November 2, 1944)
State is key to election, survey finds
Says results hinges on Pennsylvania
New York (UP) –
Newsweek Magazine announced today the final results of its presidential election survey which showed that the two candidates are so closely matched on the eve of the balloting that the final result hinges on the outcome of the race for Pennsylvania’s 35 electoral votes.
The survey, conducted nationally by 118 political writers, reported that Mr. Roosevelt leads in 27 states having an electoral vote total of 249 while Governor Thomas E. Dewey holds the lead in 20 states with a total electoral vote of 247.
In Pennsylvania, the survey said, the outcome is a “tossup,” which places the entire presidential race in the same category,
States believed either safely in the Roosevelt column or “leaning Democratic” were California, Washington, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Texas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Delaware, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Those believed favoring or leaning to Mr. Dewey were Oregon, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia, New York, Maryland, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Maine.