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...work is done in the afternoon or evening. There is a real satisfaction in seeing one's own article appear in print read by two thousand pairs of eyes, and the candidate in several ways gets much more out of the experience than the print which the readers may digest over their coffee the next morning...
Reasons advanced for Candidate Thomas' failure to receive the 2,000,000 ballots indicated by The Literary Digest straw poll: the "protest vote" went almost entirely to Roosevelt; "parlor" Socialists, reached through the straw poll (automobile & telephone owners), are relatively more numerous than "proletarian" Socialists...
...Literary Digest straw vote incorrectly gave Pennsylvania and Delaware to Roosevelt; Massachusetts. Rhode Island and New Jersey to Hoover; but its electoral vote forecast (Roosevelt: 474; Hoover: 57) erred only by two votes in Roosevelt's favor...
...minutes after the food enters, the stomach secretes hydrochloric acid and pepsin which digest the food into a sour semifluid called chyme. The stomach churns this chyme, pumps it through a valve called the pylorus (gatekeeper) into the duodenum...
...with the overwhelming approval of a sovereign people. His party will control Congress by large majorities; his personal victory will go down in history as one of the greatest landslides ever, recorded by a Democratic candidate. The fog and hysteria of a campaign have dissipated before cold numbers; the Digest Poll is again right...