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POLITICAL NOTE: F. D. R.'s Balance Sheet

Published this week by FORTUNE are the full results of its extraordinary survey on the popularity of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Oct. 4, 1937, et ante). Using the same scientific sampling of the electorate which predicted the results of the 1936 election with an error of less than i%, FORTUNE presents a page of charts and statistics giving a balance sheet of Franklin Roosevelt's popularity—probably a more complete, objective picture of the basic political situation in the U. S. than has ever been drawn up. Its prime facts:

12 Points:

Popular are: 1) Franklin...

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