POLITICAL NOTES
A poll of 4,249 Republican grass-roots workers produced these straws in the light breezes of 1945's partisan politics:
¶ Most popular man in the party: Ohio's John W. Bricker, the 1944 Vice Presidential aspirant;
¶ Biggest gainer in popularity, Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg;
¶ Biggest loser in party prestige, Nominee Tom Dewey.
The survey, conducted for the Republican, a national party magazine, showed that the biggest recent gainers in party approval (aside from Vandenberg, who jumped 40.7 points since 1943, for his foreign-policy views) were Bricker, Captain Harold Stassen, U.S.N.R., Senator Leverett Saltonstall, Governor Earl Warren.
G.O.P. workers, asked what they thought...
