The Pittsburgh Press (October 27, 1944)
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.