Word: straws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stack of straw votes accumulated at a cost of perhaps $1,000,000 by the Literary Digest (weekly opinion collector) is pointed to as one of the most momentous signs of the campaign. Last week, in its fifth installment, it showed Hoover ahead in 44 of the 48 states. The totals were: Hoover, 1,593,436; Smith 910,234. The electoral votes thus far forecast were: Hoover, 488, Smith...
Seizing upon last week's Literary Digest figures and correcting them by factors of error in the 1924 straw vote, Chairman Raskob soon snowed his candidate easily carrying, for example, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Illinois...
...CRIMSON straw vote of 1920 the Republican candidate had 52.7 percent of the total votes, and his Democratic opponent 39.6 percent. Four years ago the Republican majority had risen to 56.1 percent of the total, while the Democrats had fallen to a 26.2 percent vote. The loss of the Democrats that year was caused by the rising of a third party, which captured 17.2 percent of the poll...
...suggest in this connection that the CRIMSON has been in a rather amusing way attempting to cut its own throat? Every presidential year the CRIMSON has held a straw poll which has heretofore attracted considerable interest. This year rather than receiving the respect it deserves, there will be a great temptation to laugh off the result, in view of the clownish behavior of the CRIMSON itself...
...fourth week's standing in the straw poll taken in 40 out of the 48 states by the Literary Digest (weekly opinion reporter...