[ 1] In the 1920s, the covers carried full-color reproductions of famous paintings. By 1927, The Literary Digest climbed to a circulation of over one million. The magazine gained notoriety when its poll of the 1936 United States presidential election substantially missed the final result, predicting a landslide victory for Republican candidate Alf Landon over Democratic incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt : In the election, Roosevelt defeated Landon in an unprecedented landslide.
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