Clever! The New York Times was actually balanced in 1940. This history is fascinating. The real story going on behind the scenes, however, is FDR bringing Communists/Marxists into government and the halls of power. We are today seeing the effects.
Willkie may have been clever but he was pretty much a Roosevelt shill even while running against him. Soon after the election, the produced the horribly statist book, One World.
Hate to say I'm a little slow, but in all this time I never noticed the major factor of today's political reporting which seems entirely absent in 1940:
Where in 1940 do we see any of what we today call "the politics of personal destruction"? I don't see it, anywhere.
There are no personal stories on President Roosevelt, or anyone else, for that matter, certainly not of the salacious types which dominate today's "news." Any thoughts?