National Affairs: Sensational Shift

President Roosevelt and the New Deal are now disapproved by 62% of the nation-at-large, have lost ground in every section of the country—including AAA land—since last year and are favored in the Solid South only by a bare 2% margin.

Such were the results of a poll of some 50,000 ballots conducted by the Literary Digest and tabulated last week. Indicated was a sensational shift in public opinion since the Digest's poll last Autumn, when 51% of the votes were pro-New Deal. The Digest did not publish these results last week because it will presently conduct a much larger poll of millions...

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