Has polling improved appreciably since the 1936 election, and if so, why? Since the magazine Literary Digest was able to correctly predict the 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1932 elections, what may have gone wrong in 1936?  Could the Depression have in some ways caused the polling to be off in 1936 for Literary Digest and why?

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Has polling improved appreciably since the 1936 election, and if so, why? Since the magazine Literary Digest was able to correctly predict the 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1932 elections, what may have gone wrong in 1936?  Could the Depression have in some ways caused the polling to be off in 1936 for Literary Digest and why?

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