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...cast, 27,245,422 went to Roosevelt. 22,323,801 to Willkie. Norman Thomas' Socialist vote (116,796) was the lowest since 1900, when a Socialist candidate (Eugene Debs) first appeared on the ballot. Communist Earl Browder, barred from some State ballots, got only 49,028, ran behind Prohibitionist Roger Babson, who polled 58,674. Total for all minor-party candidates: 239,772, their worst showing since 1876. Scattered votes were cast but not counted for: Thomas E. Dewey, Bruce Barton, James A. Farley, Sally Rand, Mae West, Al Capone, a flock of others...
Minority Parties. Last week the total votes for minority-party candidates-Communist Browder, Socialist Thomas, Prohibitionist Babson, Socialist-Labor Aiken, National Greenbacker Zahnd (TIME, Oct. 21)-were still unknown, were not likely to be tallied for a fortnight. In Manhattan, Communists called a special convention, went through the motions of disowning Moscow. Reason: the Voorhis Act that requires registration of groups under foreign control...
...Freshmen were most productive of dark horses, but Leverett House achieved the largest total for any one of the unlisted candidates, giving 10 votes to Roger W. Babson as a hangover from the resent whirlwind ballot-battle of Prohibitionist. Henry H. Morgan '41 Babson's total in the entire University...
...hooray!" chortled Henry H. Morgan '41, president of the Leverett House Babson Club, as the returns on the Dunny presidential poll came in last night. And well he might, for his pressure group for the Prohibitionist candidate piled up more votes than the combined total of both the major parties...
...students voted for Willkie, with 107 for President Roosevelt, four for Thomas, and one for Prohibitionist Babson. 56 percent of the students voted in the poll...