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Still larger than this was the difference between the totals for the three gubernatorial candidates. Bacon was far out in front with 185 supporters, while Curley and Goodwin were almost equally far behind with nine and seven respectively...
This was an even worse defeat for the Democrats than the landslide poured in two days ago by the balloting of 2000 undergraduates. For the students supported Bacon by the comparatively small margin of 7-1 and repudiated the New Deal by less than 2-1. Opinion in the "brain trust" part of the University has apparently swung even further into the ranks of conservatism than the sentiments of their pupils...
Rolling up even bigger margins than the students, the Faculty part of the CRIMSON poll yesterday declared Gaspar G. Bacon '08 a 20-1 favorite over Mayor Curley and condemned the Rooseveltian policies 3-1. Ballots from nearly 200 professors were returned to the CRIMSON in the instructors' division of the straw vote...
...members of the University are eligible to take part in this straw vote, which is both a forecast of the approaching state elections and a referendum on the New Deal. On the ballots the question which refers to the campaign for the governorship carries the names of three candidates: Bacon, Curley, and Goodwin, respectively the Republican, Democratic, and Independent nominees in the three-cornered gubernatorial battle...
...same time, however, the hot battle now being waged between Gaspar G. Bacon '08, James M. Curley, and Frank W. Goodwin has been carried into the affairs of the University by and committees formed by both Republicans and Democrats. Consequently there is just as much interest in the local political battle as there is the national recovery crusade. Whether or not Democrats will vote a "straight ticket" of Curley and approval of the New Deal is another point that the poll seeks to determine...