The political guns, big & little, were now zeroed on the plain U.S. citizen, the man who "doesn't know" in the polls, or is "leaning." There he stood, without benefit of foxhole, raked in a withering crossfire that would last on into November, until the blessed peace of the polling booth descended on him.
Over no man's land circled the observers, calmly calculating how went the battle. Their guesses stood as betting odds, which generally stood about 3-to-1 on Franklin Roosevelt. Actually a citizen who wanted to bet on Dewey got 12-to-5 odds;...
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