Abstract

The Eastern Seaboard

Journalist Sidney Hillman and his co-workers of the Congress of Industrial Organizations Political Action Committee have done a job beyond all expectations. In almost all the industrial areas of the United States registration is running well ahead of 1940. This pre-election survey is based on talks in Washington and Chicago, Illinois. Registering the vote is not the same as casting the ballots. But the registration makes possible not only U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt victory but also the election of a Congress which will give the President solid support in making the peace. Outside the working-class vote in the cities, the President's strongest appeal is on foreign policy. Both the Atlantic and the Pacific seaboards ate strongly internationalist, and the Middle West is much less isolationist than it used to be. This is the key to the President's strength in the normally Republican sections of New England.