Election Forecast Quotes
The largest political poll in history sampled 10 million Americans just before the 1936 presidential election. The poll clearly showed Alf Landon would win handily. Franklin Delano Roosevelt won 523 electoral votes to 8 for Landon. The Literary Digest went out of business.
On election night in 1960 the vice presidential candidate phoned his running mate to discuss the returns:
This letter was the beginning of a political friendship and alliance that 12 years later, Lincoln would be President and Stevens, the titular head of the new Republican Party.