The largest presidential poll ever got the results dead wrong
In 1936, a magazine called “Literary Digest” surveyed millions of people and predicted that Republican Alf Landon would handily defeat the Democratic incumbent, Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Clearly, there was never a President Landon. Here’s what went wrong.
Produced by Arielle Berger. Original reporting by Dan Bobkoff.
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