The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-21

slightly over 3 to 2 in the fifth
weeks tabulation of The Literary
Digest's nationwide Presidential
poll for which returns from all
fortyreight states are reported in
Saturdays issue of the magazine.
A'total of 2,617,185 ballots are
Tailed in the current returns.
Goysfnor Roosevelt receives l.
473,446 of these, or $3.50 percent,
and President Hoover gets 973,-
367, or 37.19 percent. The balance
is divided among the five minor
candidates with Norman Thomas
receiving ass percent of the total
vote cast.
The ten new states reported in
this weeks compilation include
Florida, Maryland, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, North. Carolina, Oklahoma,
Texas, Virginia, Washington and
Wyoming. All are voting for
Roosevelt.
Hoover is carrying the seven
states of Maine, Vermont, New
Hampshire, Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island, Connecticut and New
Jersey. Roosevelt is, ahead in the
forty-one other states.
On the basis of an Electoral Col
lege vote division of the current
balloting would give Roosevelt
474 electoral votes to Hoover's
ST.
The voting. in New York is clos
er than in any other state, making
the outcome here doubtful at this
time. Roosevelt is polling 1884,
42S votes to Hoover's 148,796.
A close race is also evident in
Delaware, where Roosevelt has a
plurality of only 202 votes out of
total of 5,6S2 cast in the state.
Hoover made slight gains in the
poll during the week in Califor-
MIA and Rhode Island. The vot-
ing in all of the other SO states
previously reported has changed
only fractionally since the last re-
port. The balloting from the ten
states for which first figures are
reported furnish the bulk of the
lead which Roosevelt gains this
week.
The returns from Estate I'm
known. divide 59.47 percent for
Roosevelt and 1890 percent for
Hoover, which is slightly in excess
of the democratic candidates ratio
for the country as a whole.
The polling of the District Of
Columbia. which has no official
election, shows Roosevelt receiv-
ing 4,754 votes to Hoover's 3,577.
In an analysis of "how the
same voters voted in 1928" it is
indicated that Roosevelt is receiv-
ing 37.05 percent of his strength
from former republicans, 47.98
percent from democrats and 1881
percent from those who did not
vote four years ago. The same
analysis reveals that Hoover is
obtaining s0.59 percent of his
votes from former republican
ranks. Gil percent from the dem
ocrats and 1925 percent from
those who did not vote at the last
quadrennial election.
II is indicated also that Roose-
welt is obtaining more votes from
former republicans than from
members of his own party in the
twelve states of California, Iowa,
Kansas, Michigan, Nevada, North
Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
South Dakota, Washington. Wis
consin and Wyoming, while in IL
linois the division is almost even.
Hoover rolls up his largest lead
in Massachusetts, where he II
ahead Of his democratic rival by
vote Of 5t,739 to 29.Ti2 OF
the seven states which the presI-
dent is now carrying New Jersey
IN giving him the smallest percent
age ratio. The vote in this state
is 63,175 to 53.409 for the re-
pablican candidate.
Governor Roosevelt has a clear
majority in thirty-nine states in
the voting this week.
The socialist ratio in the poll
has declined from CPS percent IN
the first weeks returns To 4.sG
of the total Of the current iahuia-
ton. All OF the ether minor cam
didates are polling less than per
cent each of the total vote.
''Our tabulation. incomplete az
il is" The Literary Digest will state
editorially Saturday, gives an
enormous sample of the eountry's
voting strensih. Il represents the
present moment. more than two
weeks. befofe Election Day. The
sample IL growing like = snow
ball. and public opinion may
change "a II crows. The ballots
are stiil rolling in.
by coincidence or fatality.
every one Of the twelve new states
reported this week are for Rooae-
welt. al this stage Of the ballot
ing.
The state ~ Washington i
notable for the great excess Of
former republicans In iss Roose-
welt total---f2.s99 Of them 70 q