The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-12-06
South Voting For; East, West Against New Deal
 In Literary Digest Poll
Roosevelt 1S32 Support CTS ShownV Voting 55M
 of Poll Ballots to Date

The New Deal is approved by five states in the south and disapproved by thirteen states mainly in the west and east, according to the third tally of the Literary Digest's 10000, ,OOO-ballot nationwide poll which appears in the current issue of the magazine.
 A total of 421, ,560 votes are re- ported of which l87156, or 44.4 per cent are marked 'yeS" and 234, ,404, or 55.6 per cent, are voted mo" in answer to the question: Do you now approve the acts and policies of the Roosevelt New Deal to Giate?"
 Last weeks percentage for the New Deal was computed as ALI which indicates a fractional gain for the Administrations policy ill the present tabulation.
 Initial returns are reported this week from California, Massachu- Eetts and South Dakota, which are voting against the New Deal, and Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, which show majorities in favor of the Roosevelt acts and policies.
 The first scattered returns from Massachusetts register nearly 4 to vote against the New Deal, the heaviest negative vote of any of the eighteen states reported.
 Georgia, the home state of Gov- ernor Eugene Talmadge and the s'other home state" of President Roosevelt, continues to show more than 8 2 to 1 vote for the New Deal. Tennessee ranks next with better than a to majority for the Administration policies.
 The current balloting shows nine of the twelve states reported in last weeks tabulation with a frac- tional to fair gain in their respec- tive voting against the New Deal.
 The final returns for the entire country in a similar poll which the literary Digest conducted in the spring of 1884 indicated that more than 3 out of every voters favored the New Deal then.
 A comparison of the present poll returns and the official popular vote for Roosevelt in 1892 indicates 8 sharp decline percentagewise in all eighteen of the states from which returns are tallied with the exception of Kentucky.
 Oklahoma and Florida, each Of which gave the president nearly 8 to 1 plurality when he was elect ed, now indicate a majority of their voters are opposed to the Roosevelt acts and policies.
 Minnesota voted nearly 3 to 2 for Roosevelt in 1882. The vote there now is more than 3 to 3 against the New Deal in the magazines poll. A similar reversal by the same ratios is indicated also in Nebraska.
 \ An analysis of the first batch of { B4537 ballots from California shows division of 57.85 per cent against the New Deal to 42.15 per cent for 1t. 4
 The initial tally of Kentucky in- dicates that 59.64 per cent of the 14.A02 votes from there are in sup- port of the Roosevelt policies. South Dakota, which gave the president better than a 3 to 3 plurality in his 1892 election, now ballots 31s to 2 against the New Deal.
 The count of the first 13,854 votes from Virginia is divided 52.15 per cent for and 48.85 per cent against the New Deal.
 The eighteen states in this weeks report represent 47 per cent of the total population of the United States and the same states cast over 50 per cent of the total vote which Roosevelt received in his 1892 election.
 As possible indicator of the in- creased interest of the electorate in thte subject of the New Deal, the magazine points out that in the current poll more ballots have been received so far from Iowa and Kansas than were voted in the final returns of the1 934 straw referen- dunn on the same subject.
 "The Kentucky poll vote pro- Hides check upon the probable accuracy of the current New Deal poll" the magazine states in its current issue.
 "Only last month, A. B. ('Hap- pyC Chandler won the governor ship of the Blue Grass state in an election that was conducted on the strict issue of the Roosevelt pol- acies.