The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-07-06
Roosevelt Administration Approved
By Over 3 to z In Final Returns
Of Literary Digest New Deal Poll

eIdry DlgeSL HdbIOu-Wlue pOit OH
Roosevelt's acts and policies, the
tabulation Of which will be pub
lished in tomorrow's issue of the
magazine.
Vermont is the only one of the
forty-eight states registering dis
approval which it does by the ma
jority of 1852 percent.
The number of votes cast totals
1,772.163, which are reported re-
ceived from every section in the
nation, including the District of
Columbia. The final vote is IL
083,752, or ellis percent, for the
New Deal to 688,411 against it.
VA comparison of the ratio of the
final returns in favor Of Roose-
velt's acts and policies with the
popular-vote ratio he received of.
ficially in 1882, indicates that he
has increased his strength 3.83
percent since his election.
The voters in the poll were ask
cd to indicate for whom they vot-
ed in 1892, and 459.338 of the
poll voters indicate that they have
changed their minds about Roose-
welt since his election. An analy-
sis of this switching shows an aver
age gain for Roosevelt in the for
ty-eight states of $50 percent.
The same analysis indicates that
Roosevelt has incurred net losses
of support among the voters in this
New Deal Poll in twenty states and
net gains in the other twenty
eight states since 1882.
The larger losses are Tailed in
the South and in the agricultural
sections while the larger gains are
noted in the New England and
eastern industrial states and those
on the Pacific Coast. The great
est switch from Roosevelt is shown
in South Carolina and the greatest
switch to him, over ID percent, in
California.
In the six special polls that The
Literary Digest conducted among
bankers, clergy. business men. ed
ucators, lawyers and physicians,
all groups vote in favor of Roose-
velt's acts and policies except the
bankers.
The bankers vote 1895 to r.
528 against the New Deal.
OF the 24,859 votes received
from the ministers of the nation,
1858. or 64.356 percent, mark
their ballots in favor of Roose-
velt's acts and policies ION the
whole"
The poll of the business men
shows 56.23 percent of the 54,688
voting as in favor of the New
Deal.
1920 percent of the 1888 ed
ucators, 53.19 percent Of the 81
COS lawyers and 56.83 percent of
the 43.728 physicians forwarding
STRAW" ballots also vote in sup
port of the New Deal.
Another special poll conducted
among the undergraduates of
seventeen American colleges and
universities gives a majority of
64.35 percent for the New Deal.
An. analysis of how the same
students voted in 1882 shows that
Hoover carried" thirteen of the
seventeen colleges as against
Roosevelt carrying" all of them
now.
"Since the last report" The Lit
erary Digest viii state in its col
umns tomorrow, ''the ratio Of
yes ballots for the president has
increased in 10 states. The isl
of marginal states which give
Roosevelt less than a five percent
margin of approval in The Literary
Digest Poll now includes 10 states
eSeven of those states are OF
the edge in the final report. Soutl
Dakota is still nearest the line witt
a favorable ratio of 50.28-0.4'
percent than last week.
s'Vermont still stands alone il
opposition with her 53.62 ratio o
disapproval toward the president
policies.
"a total of 1,702,562 of thos,
who have voted in the current Lit
erary Digest Poll indicated OF
their ballots how they had cas-
their votes in the 1882 presidential
election.
f'0f that total, 459,33S voter
in the forty-eight states hav,
changed their minds about Roose
welt since 1882.
"Of those who voted in 1882 fol
Hoover, 237.452 now vote Yes
for Roosevelt in The Literary Di
gest Poll.
s'0f those who voted in 1893;
for others than Roosevelt and Hoo
yer, 3S,104 now vote Yes fol
Roosevelt in The Literary Diges
Poll.
"And of those who voted in tn,
1882 election for Roosevelt, 1873.
782 now vote No on the Roose
welt policies.
ION the basis of those figurei
Roosevelt now shows net gain Of
91.774 or $50 percent of the cur