The New York Daily News sent post cards to 10% of the State's 6,960,117 registered voters, asking: "Shall the United States enter the war to help Britain defeat Hitler?" Of the 696,011 voters, last week 174,309 (25%) had responded—51,507, Yes; 122,802, No. Score: Go in, 29.5%; Stay out, 70.5%. Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson editorialized: "If, contrary to his 1940 campaign pledges, the President leads or pushes us into this war any time soon, he will be taking an unwilling people into a hated war." The newspaper anticlimactically observed: "In such event, the President...
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