United States presidential election, 1932

[pnorman]

The United States presidential election of 1932 took place as the effects of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country. President Hoover's popularity was falling as voters felt he was unable to reverse the economic collapse, or deal with prohibition. Franklin D. Roosevelt saw that Hoover's failure to deal with these problems could be used as a platform for his own election, promising reform in his policy called the New Deal. Although vague about how he would remedy the situation, Roosevelt won by a landslide, and this "critical election" marked the collapse of the Fourth Party System or Progressive Era. The voters soon were realigned into the Fifth Party System, dominated by Roosevelt's New Deal Coalition.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1932


pnorman

[SteelPenguin]

1. A New Era

I really hope so and will work towards it.

Though I just have to say looking at that electoral map it makes me think about the changes in demographics since 1932 particularly out west.

[valerief]

2. Back in the days when there was no electronic voting and a Constitution.

I wonder what the Supreme Court looked like then.

[pnorman]

3. I was tempted to say: "The Supreme Court was even WORSE then!".

But that wouldn't be quite right. Many were truly REACTIONARY, and openly identified themselves with Big Business. FDR spoke of them as "The Four Horsemen Of Reaction", but they were men (no women yet!) of stern principles (as they perceived them). An Alito, a Roberts, a Thomas, would be as out of place there as the proverbial "whore in church". (I'm giving Scalia a "pass" here).

Yes, I'm fully aware of electronic voting and other such perversions of the voting process. BUT, IMO, those slimy corcksuckers have gone to the well too often! Think HOPE!

pnorman