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...tableau was not marred by the first results of a Literary Digest poll asking 15,000,000 1932 voters: "Do you approve on the whole the acts and policies of Roosevelt's first year?" Sixty-six percent of the 45,000 balloters (from New York, New Jersey & Pennsylvania) said Yes, whereas only 57% of the total Digest's straw voters had favored Roosevelt in the 1932 poll. Forty-one percent of the Digest balloters who had chosen Hoover two years ago now favored the President's policies...
With the appearance today of the ballots sent out by the CRIMSON in conjunction with the Literary Digest poll concerning the Roosevelt administration all Harvard University students will have the opportunity to express their reaction to the Roosevelt regime, and the results should prove of more than usual interest. Such polls of under graduate opinion on many issues of major importance are becoming increasingly popular, since they offer probably the only satisfactory way of securing the opinion of the informed and thinking youth of today on current problems...
...whole, although the returns of the poll must be interpreted with extreme care, the fact that college students in general have no immediate are to grind which might otherwise impart a bias to their innermost convictions should make it more than usually trustworthy. In any case the poll will indicate conclusively whether or not Harvard's traditionally conservative student body leans to the left or right, since, broadly speaking, this is the only issue which can be satisfactorily settled considering the broad scope of the more pertinent of the two questions...
...soon as the results of the work come through they will be published in the CRIMSON along with further tabulation from the national figures of the Roosevelt poll. The country so far has gone very much for Roosevelt and it will be interesting to watch how Harvard, which was strongly for Hoover, in the CRIMSON'S 1932 straw vote will feel two years later. When the vote is published a comparative set of figures on the earlier straw vote will be printed in order that the two sets may be contrasted...
...utmost simplicity. Otherwise there was a danger of the ballot becoming a battleground of opinion on the various component elements of the New Deal, their merits and demerits in the minds of individual voters. Any consideration of details might have confused the balloters and obscured the purpose of the poll which was to distil, from a generous cross-section of the nation, a pure sample of American sentiment on the subject of the New Deal on the whole...