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...Polls & Partisans. Dry 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...
...CRIMSON's presidential poll, conducted last week, brought out a lighter vote than four and eight years ago, but there is no reason to suppose that the results this year were not a fair sample of the opinion of the student body...That Harvard should go strongly Republican in normal times is to be expected; that it goes so strongly Republican this year seems to show that the younger generation are not so much disturbed by the depression as their elders...
...Daily Princetonian has undertaken to combine the results of the independent presidential straw votes taken in 34 colleges throughout the country. Over 50,000 students' votes will thus he added together. Results of the poll will be available tomorrow...
Thus far the results obtained in many castern colleges confirm the trend of student opinion as reflected in the CRIMSON poll...
...Haven, October 25--In the Yale Daily News Poll, conducted yesterday, Hoover received 1415 votes out of a total of 2142 undergraduate ballots cast...