The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-10-07
ROOSEVELT GAINS
INCREASED MARGIN
IN STRAW BALLOT
Digest Poll Now Shows Demo.
cratic Candidate With
Clear Majority

Roosevelt increases his lead over
Hoover in the third weeks returns
from twenty states in the Literary
Digest's presidential poll of 10000 00C
ballots. gaining clear majority OF
the 798,089 ballots tabulated in tomor-
rows issue of the magazine.
Roosevelt has 404, 1892 votes, or 5O.75
per cent. and Hoover has 1926, or
40.82 per cent of the total tabulated
Norman Thomas, the Socialist candi-
date, is receiving 6.65 per cent of the
ballots with the other five minor can
didates dividing the balance of liza
per cent of the total vote.
Hoover is leading in the six states
of Connecticut. Maine, Massachusetts,,
New Hampshire, New Jersey and
Rhode Island. which have combined
electoral college vote of 81.
Roosevelt is leading in Alabama,
California. Colorado, Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Mississippi. Montana. New
York, Ohio. Pennsylvania, South Car
DINA, West Virginia and Wisconsin,
which states poll 244 votes in the
electoral college.
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voters voted in 1925" Roosevelt is
shown gaining less strength from the
Republican ranks than he did last
week while the Hoover inroads into
the Democratic vote of four years ago
remain about the same.
Roosevelt gains the lead in the vot-
ing in New York, which was carried
by Hoover in the two previous weekly
returns of the poll. Roosevelt has
1922 votes to Hoover's 1867 in the
empire state.
In Pennsylvania, Roosevelt has in
creased his percentage of the states
vote from SOIL to 1894 during the
week, gaining most of his strength
from former Republicans there.
Roosevelt also continues to main
tain more than to lead over Hoover
in the presidents home state of Cali
fornia. Roosevelt is obtaining over
one-half of his total vote in California
from those who stated they voted for
Hoover four years ago, the largest
ratio the Democratic candidate gets
from former Republican ranks in any
state. Roosevelt has 35,873 votes to
Hoover's 16,402 this week in the state.
The southern states reporting this
week give Roosevelt tremendous plu-
ralities: 1924 per cent in Alabama;
1882 per cent in Georgia; 1916 per
cent in Mississippi, and 1851 per cent
in South Carolina.
New Hampshire gives Hoover 56.e2
per cent of it's total vote, leading the
Republican state column to date while
Massachusetts, gives the president 56.14
per cent, Connecticut 54.51 per cent
and Maine 53.51 per cent of the cur
rent ballots cast in these Republican
strongholds.
Roosevelt is obtaining over ma
jority of the votes-over all of the
six other presidential candidates-in
thirteen of the twenty states reported
this week.
A state by state tabulation shows
Alabama voting Hoover 1881, Roose-
welt $3.50; California: Hoover 16,4O2,
Roosevelt 35,873; Colorado: Hoover
5,798, Roosevelt 7,443: Connecticut:
Hoover 1927. Roosevelt 9,857: Geor-
gia: Hoover 389, Roosevelt 2,317.
Illinois: Hoover 1390l. Roosevelt
23,181: Indiana: Hoover 1888. Roose-
welt Is, 088: Maine: Hoover 4. 795, Roose-
Welt 1888; Massachusetts,: Hoover
IS ,299, Roosevelt $4,000; Mississippi:
Hoover 1874, Roosevelt 2,199; Mon
tana: Hoover 2,120, Roosevelt 3269;
New Hampshire: Hoover BOIL, Roose-
welt 2,O86; New Jersey: Hoover 49,
1854, Roosevelt 37,710.
New York: Hoover 106,7O8, Roose-
welt 117,282; Ohio: Hoover l4,976,
Roosevelt 22,854; Pennsylvania: Hoo
yer 46,173, Roosevelt $500; Rhode
Island: Hoover 1925, Roosevelt 1888;
South Carolina: Hoover 805, Roose-
welt 1897; West Virginia: Hoover T.
0O4, Roosevelt 11,742 and Wisconsin,:
Hoover ALSO, Roosevelt 10,034.
No returns from North Dakota have
yet been compiled.