The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-10-07
ROOSEVELT HAS
BIGGER LEAD IN
DICEST'S POLL
Margin Increased in Both
State and Nation in
Latest Tally.

Franklin D. Rooseyelts majority
in Indiana over President Hoover
continued to climb as 24,62l votes
from this state we're tabulated this
week in the Literary Digests presi-
Dental poll
The Democratic nominee was
given lead of 5.555 votes over the
incumbent as $500 who had voted
Republican in 1928 swung to
Roosevelt's side in comparison with
725 desertions by Democrats.
The straw vote reveals 1888 cast
for Hoover and 1903 for Roosevelt.
Hoover got 725 former Democratic
votes, Socialist, 2 Socia1st-Labor,
l Farmer-L Labor. 2 Prohibition, /
Communist and 1,205 who did not
vote in 1928.
Nation Lead Climbs
Roosevelt drew 7,549 former Re
publicans; 10 Socialist; 3 Socialist
Labor; 4 prohibtionist and 2,229
who did not vote in 1923.
The Democratic nominee also in
creased his total lead over Hoover
IN the national poll in which 790089
ballots have been received.
Roosevelt has 404,992 votes or
50.75 per cent. and Hoover has 325,-
345 or 40.82 per cent Of the total
tabulated. Norman Thomas, the
Socialist candidate, is receiving 665
per cent of the ballots with the
other five minor candidates divid
ing the balance Of 178 per cent Of
the total vote.
Hoover is leading in the six states
of Connecticut, Maine, MassaChu-
sets, New Hampshire, New Jersey
and Rhode Island, which have
combined electoral college of fifty
four
Roosevelt is leading in Alabama,
California, Colorado, Georgia, ILL
nois, Indiana, Mississippi Montana
New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
South Carolina, West Virginia and
Wisconsin, which states poll 244
votes in the college.
In an analysis of chow the same
voters voted in 1928" 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
voting in New York, which was car
ried by Hoover in the two previous
weekly returns of the poll. Roose-
welt has 1922 votes to Hoover's /.
JOG, 708 in the Empire state.
In Pennsylvania, Roosevelt has
increased his percentage of the
states vote from SOIL to 1894 dur
ing the week, gaining most of his |
strength from former Republicans
there.
Roosevelt also continues to main !
tain more than a to ! lead over
Hoover in the Presidents home
state of California Roosevelt is OBJ
tanning more than one-half of his /
total vote in California from those I
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 35873 votes to
Hooyer's 16,4O2 this week in the
state
PIuraltieS Big in South
The southern states reporting this
week give Roosevelt tremendous
pluralities: 1924 per cent, in Ala
bama; 1882 per cent in Georgia;
1916 per cent in Mississippi. and
1851 per cent in South Carolina.
New Hampshire gives Hoover 1852
per cent of its total vote, leading the
Republican state column to date
while Massachusetts gives the Presi-
dent 1914 per- cent, Connecticut
545l per cent, and Maine 1881 per
cent.
Roosevelt has ma ority of the
votes, over all of the six other Presi-
Dental candidates, in thirteen of
the twenty states reported this
week.
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