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Sholpan [36]
3 years ago
8

Why did the famous 1936 Literary Digest straw poll fail to predict the winner of the presidential election?

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Mazyrski [523]3 years ago
4 0

It failed to poll poor voters

Katarina [22]3 years ago
3 0
C). It failed to poll poor voters, because the names of the mailing list for the poll were taken from phone directories/magazine subscribers/etc., which tended to just be composed of middle-class/upper-class voters since they were the ones who could afford it
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