Word: ballots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the custom adopted in former presidential election years, the CRIMSON is going to hold a presidential straw ballot of the University on Wednesday and Thursday of next week, October 24 to 25. The object is to obtain and preserve a record of both the College and graduate schools' 1923 choice for the White House honor...
...greatest interest in connection with the present election campaign is the fact that in the straw ballot conducted in the University on May 4, 1920 for the nominations for the respective parties, Hoover carried both Harvard and Princeton in the balloting. The figures follow: Hoover 1121 Wood 632 Johnson 117 Lowden 79 Coolidge 44 Hughes 31 Taft 21 Scattered...
...past CRIMSON straw ballot figures mean anything, Harvard politics are largely in the hands of the Republicans. In the CRIMSON poll of 1912, however, when 1608 votes were cast, Wilson obtained 735, Roosevelt 475, Taft 365, Debs 25 and Chafin 8. No candidate secured a majority vote...
...poll, Hughes decisively defeated Wilson by a plurality of 513 votes in the straw ballot. Out of a total of 1802 votes cast; Hughes received 1140, or 62 per cent; Wilson, 627; Allan L. Benson, 24; J. Frank Hanley, 10; Underwood, 1. The large number of votes indicates the interest taken in the poll, and the Republican plurality shows the Harvard opposition to the rest of the country in one of the most closely contested elections the country has ever witnessed. For two days the states were in a frenzy of excitement, Hughes being first announced as the winner...
...presidential nominating ballot held last spring Herbert Hoover and Alfred E. Smith lead their respective lists by large majorities, the former polling 1841 votes, and the latter 1380. According to the statistics of past CRIMSON polls, it is evident that college politics has been largely dominated by Republicans, and that when the Democrats has a national majority, the third party at Harvard did not have enough influence to prevent the Republicans from keeping their predominance