Word: polling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sweeping the University even more completely than Harding did in 1920, Calvin Coolidge, the republican nominee, in the CRIMSON straw vote yesterday led Davis more than two to one in what was the most thorough poll on presidential nominees ever taken in the University. Coolidge polled 2573 votes, Davis received 1200, and La Follette...
...would seem to indicate a large majority for Coolidge at the election on November 4. Coolidge carried every department of the University and was not even pressed by Davis except in the Law School which gave Coolidge 320 out of 708 votes, and Davis 251. This year Coolidge polled 56.1 per cent of the total vote cast while in the CRIMSON poll of 1920, the year of the Republican landslide, Harding polled only 52.7 per cent of the total vote...
Several interesting sidelights on the CRIMSON poll appeared as the votes were being counted last evening...
...late hour a telegram came from New York from one of the more prominent members of the Board of Overseers, evidently a good Republican, which read: "I wish to vote for Coolidge. Include my vote in the CRIMSON poll...
...members of the Faculty or graduate schools who have not mailed their ballots by this morning are requested to turn them in any time today at the Crimson building or at any of the undergraduate polling places throughout the College. Ballots mailed by 10 o'clock this morning will reach the CRIMSON in ample time to be included in the poll...