The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-13

magazine in the spring and sum- rner of 1884. An analysis of the returns of an- | other question asked on the ballot: For whom did you vote in 1932?" is given state by states in another l tabulatoii1 in the magazine.
 '.More than 22o,0oo new votes and eight additional states, 8 total l of twenty-six," the magazine states in its current issue, "join this week in the fourth report of The Liter ary Digest's poll of New Deal strength today.
 "Now, more than half the Union is represented, and the total vote scars to the impressive figure of 642,711.
 "These returns, unusually heavy at this stage of a non-election poll, reflect the country's intense interest in the question of what the coun- try thinks of the New Deal today.
 '"rhe answer will be forthcoming when ell ballots have been tabu. lated, for this test is being con. ducted exacly like other Literary Digest polls that have foretold elec- ton results unerringly.
 ''Inconclusive as the 642,711 votes may be, since other hundreds of thousands are yet to be tailed. they offer substantial fare for speculation.
 "The twenty-six staes from which they came cast 66.3O per cent of the total vote in the 1932 election which put Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House.
 "This weeks percentages in the 0,00O, ,000-ballot test of national opinion show a further loss for the administration on the basis of the question: Do you now approve the acts and policies of the Roosevelt New Deal to date?'
 "The yes percentage is a drop of 164 from. last week when 42l, ,560 votes from eighteen states were re- corded.
 "Oh the twenty-six states now represented, the New Deal is lead- ing in seven, tagging in nineteen. However, twenty-two more states are yet to be heard from, as well as thousands of voters in the states already listed.
 Another interesting feature of the fourth report is that the seven farm states, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Da- kota, Nebraska and Kansas, are now all represented.
 "Over a period of twenty years Give presidential elections) the record of these seven states is pre- ponderantly' republican. Yet, con- trary to the record, the Literary Digest poll in 1882 forecast that l these states would go democratic.
 "All did vote democratic in 1882, although previously, back to 1916, only four, Missoupri, North Da- kota, Nebraska and Kansas, ever had voted democratic, and, then, only once, in 1916.
 "The Literary Digest wishes to address 8 further word to those hostile critics who have seized upon the NOW, printed in capital let ters, in the question on the ballot, as evidence of a hidden political purpose.
 An who have read the letter ac- conpanying the 1885 ballots under stand perfectly the simple reason for the word NOW in the present poll.
 since the great poll of last year, friends and foes of the New Deal have made conflicting claims about the trend of public opinion.
 '"The present poll will find out If there has been any shift in senti- lnent. since The Literary Digest Is using the same list of names as last year, asking those who voted then whether they NOW approve the acts and policies of the New Deal to date.
 "The editors of The Literary Di- gest realize that, under the stress of political excitement, it is only human nature to magnify trifles. In every poll over 8 long period of years, The Literary Digest has faced an outburst of criticism intelligent and otherwise" ..-----------~a--------- N.no,lgh heer tA RllnYlly q ninte fn