Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Governor Pinchot had campaigned on a platform appropriated from his Democratic friend Franklin D. Roosevelt and since Senator Reed had spent most of his time on the hustings damning the Administration, the primary had been widely touted as the New Deal's first ordeal by ballot box. Day after the primary, Pennsylvanians woke to find that they had not only recorded their sovereign electoral will but had also been cast as a political oracle for the country. A host of strictly partisan interpreters at once gave tongue...
...present case, however, the answer to the principal question on the ballot indicating whether or not the voter is sympathetic to the Roosevelt policies so far, may lead to some ambiguity in interpreting the results. The policies of the Roosevelt regime have been so far-reaching in scope that they have affected practically all contemporary fields of human endeavor, including the social, economic, and political. Hence, the diversity of opinion with which the New Deal has so far been received and which makes it all but impossible to express unqualified approval or disapproval of its methods. The liberal...
Fifteen million Americans are to have a opportunity to tell what they think of the New Deal. They will participate in a straw vote of a novel kind. It will be a secret ballot. It will be widely accepted as a reflection of the state of the public mind with respect to the policies of the Roosevelt Administration because it will be conducted by the Literary Digest, which in forecasting election results by this method has shown that it is remarkably accurate in telling how the American nation will vote. There would seem to be no reason why it should...
...referendum includes two questions: "Do you approve on the whole the acts and policies of Roosevelt's first year?" and "For whom did you vote in 1932?" The person receiving a ballot makes two crosses, writes the name of his State, and drops the card in the mail box. Yet this simple operation may have results of profound significance. The New Deal is to be put to the acid test...
...speaking of the type of question which the ballot contains the Digest says: "In framing the ballot, the Digest aimed at the 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...