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  • Landon, 1,293,669; Roosevelt, 972,897 [1936 Poll: Landon Beats FDR in a Landslide]

    10/23/2008 12:03:07 AM PDT · by Alter Kaker · 8 replies · 1,099+ views
    Literary Digest ^ | 31 October 1936 | The Editors
    Well, the great battle of the ballots in the poll of 10 million voters, scattered throughout the forty-eight states of the Union, is now finished, and in the table below we record the figures received up to the hour of going to press. These figures are exactly as received from more than one in every five voters polled in our country—they are neither weighted, adjusted, nor interpreted. Never before in an experience covering more than a quarter of a century in taking polls have we received so many different varieties of criticism—praise from many and condemnation from many others—and yet...