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...fodder to Republicans, but to Jim Farley and the Democratic donkey a feast, were the presidential straw votes conducted by The Literary Digest and the Hearst-papers. Every four years since 1920 the Digest's poll has successfully predicted the outcome with never more than a 5% error in the total vote. Each time the victorious G. O. P. accepted the poll at full value, hailed it as accurate, authoritative. This year the Digest's canvass of some 20 million citizens points strongly to a Democratic sweep. Last week the vote stood 1,095,274 for Hoover...
...H.A.A. News of the football ticked situation. In view of gaping grey holes in stadium crowds and a rising tide of complaint from undergraduates and alumni, some each analysis was, indeed, necessary; for the present high rates have proven irksome and damaging to all concerned. This editorial admits the error of the present policy, explains in some measure the false hopes and complications that have impeded change, and promises that "certainly different price arrangements will be made another year." The attitude throughout is refreshingly straightforward and thorough...
...read, read and wrote in preparation for his second campaign tour. About the Democratic presidential nominee clustered college professors, researchers, political advisers, economists, financial experts supplying him with material for speeches on an eight day swing through 15 states. Some of his friends thought he was making a tactical error to roam through territory much of which already appeared to be his. The Roosevelt itinerary...
...accuracy of the Digest's straw vote is not beyond question, however. While the poll is conducted with scrupulous honesty and care, there are several factors which provide a possibility of error. Most of the votes are cast a month before the election, and many people are apt to change their minds. A candidate may do something foolish, or an unexpected event may occur, or Trend be evidenced, which will change the whole course of public opinion. The possibility of error is not large enough to be of importance except in a close election, however, and the forthcoming election does...
...recent news from England shows that the Laborites have learned what they consider the error of their ways. There will be no delay in socializing the Bank of England and certain industries that have long been slated for government control. The resolution passed at Leicester is essentially an impatient repetition of the old cry: "Socialism in our day." Today it appears that the intellectual socialist element is dissatisfied with its past role of adviser to the stand-pat trade unions, and intends to renew its appeal by turning to the professions and to the bourgeois classes in general...