[DOC] [TLE] 1936 election: Case Study I [PAR] The presidential election of 1936 pitted Alfred Landon, the Republican governor 
of Kansas, against the incumbent President, Franklin D. Roosevelt. ... For the 
1936 election, the Literary Digest prediction was that Landon would get 57% of 
the ... The sampling error in the Literary Digest poll was a whopping 19%, the 
largest... [DOC] [TLE] Landon in a Landslide: The Poll That Changed Polling [PAR] The 1936 postal card poll claimed to have asked one fourth of the nation's voters 
which ... In Literary Digest's October 31 issue, based on more than 2,000,000 ... it 
issued its prediction: Republican presidential candidate Alfred Landon would win 
.... a few years ago, we took a Poll of California when it was believed by most of... [DOC] [TLE] The Literary Digest Poll [PAR] The candidates were Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the incumbent president, ... and 
Alfred (Alf) Mossman Landon (the republican challenger, then governor of 
Kansas). ... Based on the poll, The Literary Digest predicted that Landon would 
win the 1936 ... college landslide of 523 to 8 (the largest ever in a presidential 
election). [DOC] [TLE] United States presidential election, 1936 - Wikipedia [PAR] The United States presidential election of 1936 was the 38th quadrennial 
presidential election, ... The election took place as the Great Depression entered 
its eighth year. ... Roosevelt's Republican opponent was Governor Alf Landon of 
Kansas, .... This election is notable for The Literary Digest poll, which was based 
on 10... [DOC] [TLE] Jeop Study Set XIII Flashcards | Quizlet [PAR] Corazon Aquino. President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992, she passed 
away in 2009 ... Alf Landon. In October 1936 Literary Digest took a poll & 
declared that this Kansan would win the presidency in a landslide. ... Cassandra. 
Trying to win her love, Apollo gave this daughter of King Priam the gift of 
prophecy. [DOC] [TLE] Five biggest political polling mistakes in U.S. history - Yahoo [PAR] Oct 2, 2012 ... October 2, 2012 ... The mother of all botched political polls was a 1936 Literary 
Digest straw ... challenger Alf Landon would win in a landslide over the 
incumbent, ... President Roosevelt won the 1936 election easily, with 63 percent 
of ... said that based on exit polling, Kansas Senator Bob Dole would trail... [DOC] [TLE] Election of 1936: A Democratic Landslide - United States History [PAR] The role of Election of 1936: A Democratic Landslide in the history of the ... been 
elected governor of Kansas in 1934, the only Republican gubernatorial to ... In a 
speech in Chicago, on October 14, 1936, Roosevelt stated: ... the 1936 election 
his boss would win every state except Vermont and Maine, which proved correct. [DOC] [TLE] The Election of 1936 The presidential election of 1936 ... - Boundless [PAR] The Literary Digest wrongly predicted that Landon would win. ... The Gallup poll 
continued to be a critical element in political public opinion polling. ... Landon of 
Kansas was the most lopsided presidential election in U.S. history in terms of ... 
Roosevelt won the greatest electoral landslide, winning all but eight electoral 
votes... [DOC] [TLE] A Primer on Polls - Kellogg School of Management [PAR] Literary Digest, a popular weekly magazine, begins the first of its straw polls, ... 
62.5 percent The Literary Digest predicts that Republican Alfred Landon will win 
... 1948: Major polls and pollsters predict a Dewey landslide. ... of Kansas would 
defeat Franklin Delano Roosevelt for the presidency by 60 to 40 percent of the 
vote. [DOC] [TLE] Presidential Politics in South Dakota, 1936 - South Dakota State ... [PAR] M. Landon of Kansas as its candidate for president of the United ... accounts of 
the 1936 presidential campaign can be found in the following works: ... ended 
abruptly and dramatically with Roosevelt winning all but one ..... Sioux Falls Daily 
Argus-Leader, 8 Oct. 1936. ... published in the Farm/ourna/and the Literary Digest
. [DOC] [TLE] Why Polls Don't Work - Reason.com [PAR] Jan 14, 2016 ... Henceforth, Gallup would no longer poll Americans on whom they would

Question: In October 1936 Literary Digest took a poll & declared that this Kansan would win the presidency in a landslide
Answer: Alf Landon