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Survey of Hoover-Smith Contest Shows Roosevelt Landslide Greater

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As the returns of yesterday's election trickle in it appears that the Democratic landslide has had even greater proportions than did the Republican landslide of 1928. In that year the Republican party took all but eight states for a total of 444 electroal votes, to 87 for the Democrats with Al Smith at the helm.

Whereas in 1928 the losers managed to take eight states, it appears that in the present election the losers will garner at the most five and at the least three states. The three states which are definitely for Hoover are Maine, which elected a Democratic governor in September, Vermont, and Pennsylvania. Other possibilities are New Hampshire, which reelected Winant, the Republican candidate for governor, and Connecticut, which elected a Democratic governor, Wilbur L. Cross. All of these states are normally Republican states, with the possible exception of Connecticut, and all of them went for Hoover in 1928 by large margins.

All the states which were in the Democratic column in 1928 have gone for Roosevelt and Garner by extremely large pluralities, with the exception of the two New England states, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, which have been carried by Roosevelt, but only by comparatively small margins.

The solid south seems to be more solid than ever this year.

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