The Literary Digest was created in 1890.
The Literary Digest ended in 1938.
The literary digest only polled its readers and its readers were not a random sample. Only people who liked to read and had money to spend on books took the literary digest. Thus their poll was biased and did not give an accurate result.
The Literary Digest
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The Literary Digest
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Asked how to say his name, Knopf told the Literary Digest: "Sound the k: k'nupf."Source: Wikipedia.
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George Gallup correctly predicted that FDR would handily defeat Alf Landon by using a survey with a relatively small random sample of about 1000 people; meanwhile the Funk & Wagnalls Literary Digest used a sample of more than a million of its readers, who were disproportionately wealthy and supportive of the Republicans, to predict that Landon would win in a landslide, and at first the Literary Digest poll was more widely known.