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Bookmark or Share- Literary Digest Poll - Calvin UniversityThe Literary Digest was one of the most respected magazines of the time and had a history of accurately predicting the winners of presidential elections that dated back to 1916.
- The Literary Digest - Wikisource, the free online libraryThe Literary Digest was an influential general interest weekly magazine published by Funk & Wagnalls. Founded by Isaac Kaufmann Funk in 1890, it eventually merged with two similar weekly magazines, Public Opinion and Current Opinion.
- Why the 1936 Literary Digest Poll Failed - JSTORThe Literary Digest poll was a failure because its estimate of the actual vote was wildly incorrect, and it even predicted the wrong winner. Commentary on the poll reveals two hypotheses to explain why it
- Landon in a Landslide: The Poll That Changed PollingIn Literary Digest's October 31 issue, based on more than 2,000,000 returned post cards, it issued its prediction: Republican presidential candidate Alfred Landon would win 57 percent of the popular vote and 370 electoral votes.
- Literary Digest | American magazine | BritannicaIn history of publishing: Reader’s Digest magazine. …the United States were the Literary Digest (1890–1938), started by two former Lutheran ministers, Isaac K. Funk and Adam W. Wagnalls; the Review of Reviews (1890–1937), founded by Albert Shaw to condense material about world affairs; and Frank Munsey’s Scrap Book (1906–12), “a ...
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