The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-23
IF|NAL FIGURES IN
 LITERARY DIGEST POLL
 GIVE LANDON 32 STATES
Eishsh Weeks Report Shows Gov. LandOn Leading By Nearly Il to 8 = Big City Returns, However, Indicate Roosevelt 2tOl l--
 Old Slogan Recalled "54. ..4O.. Fight"

New York, Oct. 23.-Landon leads Roosevelt by nearly II to in the sernl-f1nal returns of The Literary Digest's nationwide poll even though Che President cuts into the Kansas governors plurality for the seventh consecutive time due to the addi- tion of approximately 125,000 poll ballots from metropolitan centers out of total increase of 345,0OO votes since last weeks report.
 Landon has a poll majority or plurality in thirty-two states while Roosevelt is shown carrying sixteen. In the Electoral College these states would divide 37O votes for Governor Landon to 161 for President Roose- Relt.
 A total of 2,15S, ,739 votes is report bd in the current poll tally. The re- publican candidate gets 1,182,307 votes to the democrats 878,526 and the Union candidates total of 75,- 1l9. The balance of 22,787 votes, or slightly over 1 per cent, is divided among the four minor candidates.
 Lemke's Home State Loyal
 Lemke receives his largest state wote in his home bailiwick of North Dakota where he is shown receiving q little over 12 per cent of the total vote there.
 In Minnesota he receives slightly Aander 10 per cent of the states vote and in all other states he is indi- bated receiving less.
 A special polling of Chicago gives i Roosevelt l6,934 votes out of total city tally of 35,017 to Landon's 16,293 and Lemke's 1885, indicating scant plurality for the President in the Illinois metropolis.
 Tn Philadelphia, Roosevelt is shown with 29,599 votes to Landon's IR3, ,464 and Lemke's 2,6l5 out of 56,- IB27 ballots reported from the Qua ker City.
 Pittsburgh, where special treat naent was given also by The Literary Digest poll managers, gives Roose- welt o,S66 votes to date against re- ceipts of 7,095 ballots marked for Landon and 1,240 for Lemke out of 10 total of l8,42l.
 Cleveland is reported balloting a063 for the democratic candidate to the republicans 1,025 and the Onion party nominees 412.
 New York City for Roosevelt
 New York City is reported return ang 1S6, ,156 straw ballots 80 far which nre divided S3,566 for Roosevelt, 42,- ID89 for Landon, 5,s72 for Lemke and ik .6Sl for others.
 l All of the returns from the several metropolitan cities are reported as ncluded in the returns for the tstates of which they arc . unit.
 Landon shows . decrease percent agewise in twenty-five states since last weeks tabulation, an increase in twenty states and no change in three states. Only in Illinois and New York, where . heavy metro politan vote is reported, does his standing decline substantially.
 'Fifty-four forty flghtl" khe magazine states in its current Issue.
 Tn the seminal report of The literary Digest's 1936 Presidential Poll, this slogan of the war party in the lS44 election might well apply.
 "Govs Alfred M. Landon leads in ehirty-two states, with 54.8 per cent of the ballots: President Franklin D. Roosevelt holds his sixteen states, with 40.7 per cent.
 ''Lemke is third, with S.4S per cent. all others share i.05.
 Over Two Million Ballots
 '.The returns have been steadily eatapulting upward, with this. eighth count of the survey showing 2,15S,- 730 ballots.
 sAs has been the case for two months, Roosevelt, on the entire vote, again shears oil something of