Word: polle
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Obviously, in a close election, as this was, a man receiving a large number of fifth choices would poll a poorer vote than if each fifth vote received as much consideration as a first choice. It is also plain that a candidate receiving numerous second and third votes would be elected rather than a nominee polling a few first and a numerous number of last choices. When the Senior Class is under the apprehension that it is balloting under the preferential system, it may use, if it wishes, the first choice for candidates whom it believes to be weak, with...
...Prussian Diet (State Legislature) last week. Thus they expressed their wish that Dr. Otto Braun, famed Socialist Prime Minister of Prussia, should dissolve the Diet, order an election. The Prussian Fascists knew they would make large electoral gains, because the German Fascists won so heavily in the recent Reichstag poll (TIME, Sept. 22). They called Socialist Braun "swine" and "coward" because he is not simple enough to play into their hands...
...industrial sections the Republican vote will be reduced, due to unemployment. . . . The issue that is causing the greatest trouble is Prohibition and in Ohio and Massachusetts some Republican candidates for the House may be defeated because of this. . . . In the always accurate poll of the Cincinnati Enquirer the Democratic candidate for the Senate [Robert Johns Bulkley'], who favors repeal of the 18th Amendment, is running 100% ahead of the Republican candidate [Roscoe Conkling McCulloch] who is dry. . . . Many dry Republicans may go down to defeat in the November election. But ... 7 cannot see the Democrats winning the House. However...
...results of this poll will probably not be startlingly different from those shown by the Literary Digest count of 1930, which were, according to the New York Moderation League, that in the entire United States "over two to one are against the present...
...reason to suppose that the vote of three thousand editors will be any more accurate a gauge of the people's feelings than were the votes of the magazine reading public who voted in the Literary Digest ballot. And so if is suggested that a third type of poll be taken, by secret ballot, in little booths, on some "first Tuesday" in November. This, at least, ought to be conclusive...