Henderson daily dispatch., 1940-10-10
See-Saw Voter May Decide
Election, Stewart Declares


over wendell l.. WIIItlie. Willkie-iteS
however, get considerable balm ul
GIltad out of the tact that these polls
have recorded 4 noticeabiy SiZcable
proportion OF the voters questioned
who hadn't made up their minds
when quericd. how they will cast
their ballots.
This bloc is about 10 per cent
%uuH4. Assuming that ROoSeVclt'S
anG Wiliijr'& respective straw show
iG-> ar approximately correct. doubt
rul contingent, should it flop mostly
nUl WuE. Ought 10 DC enough to de-
sd the tl,vt;un.
NOW. the Republicans reason that
~ ,Hd.yiCuul vino remains on the
fence until the last minute IS f.!
l.Nciivr, tiu1tly. Ia get OFT on Will
kIS'S side thuu ON RuuSevcit'S. He
con Shc) has had, say G.. O. p.
analysts. hard onto eight years to
assess the present White House ten
amt. Ii TIE latter, in that electors OPP
mon. mas performed sufficiently
satisfactorily To offset whatever anti
th,rd term prejudice such voter may
At>'I ''I, NII>tl lClSpil StiI tNtNlN 4SN oiS
his continuance IN office.
Ii. however, said citizen Cor citi-
ZcncSS) is RooSrVcltianly hc>itant,
thu inference Is that he or she isn't
overly we'll suited with Franklin d.
III today, lumlturc. Yet he ~ she
out il she or he" to be impair
tiaD quite possibly has regarded
WcuHtL Wuit>ir rs practically I'M
known quantity hitherto: therefore
has preferred uot to declare for him
pre,natlWcly.
Can Wendell Win EN-?
Can WENDELL II the course of his
still raging campaign talks. convince
this See-saWing element?
Ii he can do it. the Willkic-ites
contend 1h,t he'll get most of that
aggregation and that it'll elect him.
And they maintain that he can do
it. You can't but suspect that more
OF less WiShful thinking enters into
their argument. Nevertheless, such
is there cerebratior.
The New Dealers naturally pooh
pooh ii ContemptuouSly.
Personally. l think the Democrats
genuinely are more confident than
the Republicans. but perhaps that's
to be expected; they're inrenChcG
ana that's al advantage.
One guess IS that Norman Thomas
will get record Socialist vote. No
body believes. to be sure. that there's
any really SociuliStic trend. The no
ton iii there's anything in iO is
that it'll be protest vote cast by
folk who are fed up on the New Deal
but don't want 10 cast ballots Gur
Wjllkie OF course. should i happen.
it won't imply CummuniStic. NaZj
OF Fascist SympathieS. Thomas
doesn't 60 into any OF those CLASH
ticationS. He rates as 4 polItiCu-
economic bug. but not L malignant
one.
G.. o. +. Rather PeSSimiStic.
I live in an atmosphere which is
decidedly WjllEie-eSQuely pessimistic.
Capitol Hill doesn't count Regard
less Of what they truly anticipates.
congressman predict victory III No
vcmbcr accordingly Us they are Dem
ucratS ul Republicans. Ditto The re-
spective parties headquarters.
My gang, though, is the Washing
ton newspaper corps.
I'd estimate it as about 80 per cent
pgo-WillIiic III sympathy. It's thus
mainly because the boys don't like
Roosevelt You might suppose they
would. but they Cont. They deem
him tup patruniZ,ug on something.
Nevertheless. Pro-Wendell though
they are ScntimCntally, they bet on
Franklin ID.
Senator Carter Glass Of Virginia
discouraged the crew badly when he
announced that, despite mis- violent
third term opposition, he intended to
vote the Democratic ticket. Their
conclusion is that the Solid South,
while strongly anti-third tcrmit2,
will stay solid.
With the south remaining that
way. the newspaper dope is that
Franklin d. will get enough addition
al northern votes to elect him.
I'm speaking OF the papers Wash
ington correspondents; not their
home newspapers.
You can wish one thing and think
otherwise.