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Siam, with an area of 198,000 square miles, is as large as the 12 northeastern states, including West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Bangkok, the capital, has more than 1,000,000 inhabitants, and, outside of the harbor facilities, is up-to-date in all ways...
...predict the exact election results of 1936. He does claim that Roosevelt will carry every state in the South and every state west of the Mississippi. There are 531 votes in the Electoral College. A winning majority is 266. The South (excluding Maryland and West Virginia) and the area west of the Mississippi (including Minnesota) have 272 electoral votes. Therefore, argues Mr. Hurja, Roosevelt is certain of re-election and any states he carries in the Northeast will be surplusage...
Since cotton and tobacco farmers are on the whole devoted to AAA, the Democratic South should certainly be solid this year. The Gallup poll shows that section of the country to be stronger than any other area for Roosevelt. Thus Mr. Hurja properly counts 146 electoral votes from 13 Southern states...
...West he is on more questionable ground. Of the 18 states in that area, the Gallup poll classifies Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota, Missouri, with 93 electoral votes, as "Definitely Democratic." Thus Mr. Hurja might compose a table...
...these two lineups should occur, the final result of the election would be determined in the remaining area where the Democrats are at present least strong, the Republicans least weak. That area, roughly bounded by the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains, approximates the grain belt. There Kansas has 9 electoral votes, Minnesota, 11, South Dakota 4, Wisconsin 12, Wyoming 3, Colorado 6. Total...