The Pittsburgh Press (September 3, 1944)
Small shift needed, GOP chairman says
Chicago, Illinois (UP) – (Sept. 2)
Herbert Brownell Jr., chairman of the Republican National Committee, believes that a switch of only about four percent of the vote cast in 1940 will be necessary to elect Governor Thomas E. Dewey Nov. 7.
The GOP chairman said:
There is a much greater defection for the New Deal, particularly in Texas and the border states than is indicated on the surface.