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The Literary Digest was an American general interest weekly magazine published by Funk & Wagnalls. ... Prior to the 1936 election, ...
This election is notable for The Literary Digest poll, which was based on ten million questionnaires mailed to readers and potential readers; 2.38 million were returned. The Literary Digest had correctly predicted the winner of the last five elections, and announced in its October 31 issue that Landon would be the winner with 57.08% of the vote ...
A mid-October Literary Digest poll had Roosevelt winning the state by a two-to-one margin. [14] In the end Roosevelt received over 68 percent of the vote to Landon’s 30.82 percent, surpassing the Digest forecast.
The Literary Digest published the final returns in its presidential election poll, projecting Alf Landon to beat President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Landon was forecast to carry 32 states worth 370 electoral votes, 104 more than required for election. The Literary Digest poll had correctly predicted the winner of every presidential election since ...
1936 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Landon, blue denotes states won by Roosevelt. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. Senate elections; Overall control: Democratic hold: Seats contested: 36 of 96 seats (32 Class 2 seats + 6 special elections) [1] Net seat change: Democratic +6 [2] 1936 Senate ...
The 1936 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 3, 1936, as part of the 1936 United States presidential election, ...
In March 1936 Funk became editor in chief of Funk & Wagnalls' magazine The Literary Digest. [16] The Digest polled its readers regarding the outcome of the 1936 presidential election, and put Alf Landon at 56%; in fact he got only 36% of the vote. AIPO predicted not only the correct result, but also the result of the Digest poll. [17]
As it turned out – like all the Literary Digest polls — Roosevelt’s strength was severely underestimated, for he actually won 86.38 percent of Alabama’s vote to Landon’s 12.82 percent, this being the best performance by a presidential candidate in Alabama since the largely uncontested elections of 1832.