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Have you folded? Brace up. You didn't conduct a poll or did you? Let's hear from you when you have TIME again...
Second reason for Franklin Roosevelt's bad guessing, and the bad guessing of almost every straw poll, was that a big block of citizens who do not ordinarily vote turned out at this election. Instead of 31% or 32% of the population voting, as in the last two elections, some 36% voted last week. Most of these, millions of normally silent votes apparently went to the New Deal, with the result that Franklin Roosevelt piled up 60.4% of the popular vote. The extent of this upset was not evident even after the greater part of the ballots were counted...
...Townsend, who had also vapored about "controlling" the next Congress, claimed 102 sympathizers in the new House. But of the successful candidates whom he endorsed, only a fraction returned the compliment in a pre-election poll by United Press in which 240 Congressmen-to-be declared themselves stanchly opposed to the oldster's Plan. With Dr. Townsend thus proved politically harmless, U. S. Attorney Leslie C. Garnett announced in Washington last week that the onetime messiah would be prosecuted forthwith on the contempt citation voted against him last spring when he walked out on a House investigating committee (TIME...
John D. M. Hamilton: "The Literary Digest poll underestimates Governor Landon's strength. He will be elected by a landslide...
Thus John Nance Garner & wife at the schoolhouse poll near their home election morning. They had started out an hour early by mistake, walked back home to wait, and now Mr. Garner was impatient. He had marked ballot No. 13 with scarcely a glance...