Word: voting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrat, my traditions and former party allegiance are just the other way, but I am going to vote the Democratic ticket this year. I think Smith is more liberal and more candid, and I do not like Hoover's habit of handing out to the public the old fashioned political guff we have been forced to stomach since McKinley's time...
...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...
This year the Republicans dropped back to 52 percent of the total vote while the Democrats rose to 44 percent, leaving an almost negligible 3.7 percent for the Socialists. Final Results of Crimson Presidential Poll Department Hoover Smith Thomas Misc. Thrown Total College 1296 1024 106 83 62 2571 Law School 482 623 39 11 14 1169 Business School 292 128 5 8 7 440 Total...
With the final results of the CRIMSON poll published, it is evident that the University has run nearly true to form. Comparison with the votes of 1920 and 1924 indicates that, though the country may vary widely from campaign to campaign, the generations of Harvard men present a remarkably similar political aspect. The reunited Democratic vote and the results in the Graduate Schools are, however, of some significance...
...claims of Smith campaign managers to the inheritance of the LaFollette liberal vote of four years ago are borne out in the miniature of the University. The percentage of Democratic votes this year equals the combined Davis-LaFollette total of 1924; and, in spite of sufficient publicity, the Socialist candidate failed to approach the support accorded the extinct Third Party. Harvard's Republican vote is something of a fixture, and does not run alarmingly below its past strength...