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Aimee Semple McPherson was out for Merriam, picturing Upton Sinclair as "a red devil." Seeress Gene Dennis consulted the stars, predicted that Acting Governor Merriam would win, the election. The Literary Digest poll said the same thing?2½-to-1. The gamblers' money had switched to Merriam at 5-to-1. Almost as hysterical as his opponents, Sinclair charged that "208 experienced gangsters" had been brought from New York to substitute "stuffed" ballot boxes for the official ones...
...Republicans would carry California. Senator Hiram Johnson was sure of reelection, but since the New Deal had adopted him as a Democrat that will be an empty triumph for the G. O. P. Republican Acting Governor Frank Merriam, too, had a good chance of reelection. A Literary Digest poll last week showed him leading Upton Sinclair, 2½-to-1. But there, again, such an outcome would be due, not to Republican headwork, but to the jettisoning of Democratic Nominee Sinclair by the Democratic Administration in Washington...
...such a moneyed institution as the New Deal. The only substantial basis for hope that Chairman Fletcher has had during his five months labors was the fact that businessmen have gradually found the New Deal distasteful-a fact first reported by observers; then confirmed by a small Literary Digest poll indicating that the New Deal had lost 10% of its supporters since the Digest's big poll in May; and finally verified by Franklin Roosevelt's much advertised turn to the right, his effort to smile business back into good humor...
...other professor is Frank W. Taussig '79, Henry Lee Higginson Professor of Economics, who has described Curley as a "blatant demagogue." The shift in sentiment is further borne out by the new results of the Faculty poll this morning. Bacon has a total of 311 votes while Curley has only 18. Thus the Faculty is supporting the Republican candidate by a vote of 18 to 1 while undergraduates voted only 7-1 in favor...
...noticeable, however, that there was practically no change in the decision on the New Deal. The ratio for and against remained almost the same as in the earlier returns, and of the eight persons who cast their ballots for Mayor Curley, seven favored, one opposed Pres- CRIMSON FACULTY POLL Bacon 301 Curley 17 Goodwin 8 "Yes" on New Deal 83 "No" on New Deal...