The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-13
Complete
 Nov. Returns
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The returns spotlight the virtual extinction of traditional minor protest parties, the disappearance of the Communist Party from the ballot and the rise of the new, left-wing parties in New York State to significant balance-of- power position.
 MT. Roosevelt won 36 states to Dewey's 12. But the tally shows that the Presidents margins, per- certagewise, were comparatively slim in 12 states which cast a con- bined electoral vote of 202. If Dewey could have added these 12 to his total, he would have had fat 301 in the electoral college where bare majority is 266.
 Returns indicate that Republi- cans would have a better chance to win in those states in 1948 than in in others which went for MT. Roose- welt. The 12 states with the per- centage by which each voted for MT. Roosevelt as against Dewey are as follows: Connecticut 52.7O; Idaho 51.75; Illinois 5174; Maryland 51.85; Massachusetts 52.91; Michigan 50.51: Minnesota 52.79; New Hampshire 52.12; New Jersey 5O,68; New York 52.52; Oregon SPAS; Pennsylvania 51.41.
 Dewey's closest contests and the percentages by which he won the popular vote were: Indiana 52.85; Iowa 52.26; Maine 52.50; Ohio 50. IS; Wisconsin 50.91; Wyoming 51.23. Those states cast 89 electoral votes and without them Dewey would have won only 31.
 The Presidents 1914 popular vote plurality over Dewey compares with 100000 over former Presi- dent Herbert c. Hoover in 1882; 10,700,000 over Ali M. Landon in 1886; and 5,000,0O0 over the late Wendell L. Willkie in 1940. Those Republican candidates won 58, 8 and 82 electoral votes, respectively. Republicans will find some com- fort in those figures. But in 1944 as in each of the preceding cleo. tions, MT. Roosevelt won independ- ently of the solid south and some border states, an extraordinarily achievement The returns show that the President could have been reelected by an electoral college vote of 269 Representing a majority of three voteS) and 8 popular vote plurality of slightly over 100000 if the returns from the following IA statesN al lof which he won, had been disregarded altogether:
 Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mis- siSsippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Ten nesSee, Texas and Virginia.
 Those states cast 5,058,934 pop- ular votes and 163 electoral votes for MT. Roosevelt. They cast g. 664,887 popular votes and no elect oral votes for Dewey.
 The minor protest parties, which are tradition in American politics. have been hit hard by the appeal of the New Deal. The trend was dis cernible in 1886 and impressive this year. Norman Thomas, five times presidential candidate of the &c., cialist party, practically has ack- nowledged that the troops he once led have deserted him.
 Significant Development
 Most significant development was ill New York State where the AmAr- ican Labor party, hardly more than five years old, pclled 496, ,4O5 votes and the Liberal party, an infant born this year, boiled BPS, ,235. Both parties made MT. Roosevelt their presidential nominee and he could not have won without them. His plurality over Dewey in New York State was only 316,591.
 The Liberal party is an off-shoot of the American Labor Party and was formed by labor leaders who deserted the ALP this year charging that the latter was dominated by Communists.
 The American Labor Party gave MT. Roosevelt 41T,00O votes fer president in New York in 1940. The Communists were opposing him and denouncing the capitalist war" in that election and they and other minor parties polled an aggregate fo 218,000 anti-Rooseevlt votes. The anti Roosevelt minor party vote was cast in New York this year for Thomas and for Edward A. Teich- ert, Socialist-Labor presidential candidate. Ia aggregated less than 25,00O votes. Thomas boiled 122,500 votes for president in New York in 1892; this year he got 10.553.
 Eugene Debs pc.led 920,000 votes on the Socialist ticket in 1920. The late Robert M. LaF'ollette rolled up 4,822,856 in his 1924 Progressive party bolt Thomas, in 1928, won 267 900 ovtes for president. In the 1882 depression year election, there were half dozen Left Wing protest parties polling an aggregate of l. 163, ,0O0 votes, of which the Socialists cast 8S5, 900 and the Communists 102,OO0
 Hardly a trace of that protest voting strength remains indepen- dently visible, the Left Wing of American politics having been prac- tically absorbed into the New Deal- |