Alternate 1920 - Hoover as a Democrat

[CPT MikeyMike]

How about this match up for 1920.

Democrats
Herbet Hoover/ Franklin Roosevelt

Republicans
Warren Harding/ Calvin Coolidge

Many Democrats wanted Hoover to run with FDR in 1920 before Hoover made his affiliation clear. Could this have been the Democrats' only victorious ticket in 1920?

[gorkay]

Hoover would have done quite a bit better in the PV but not much, if any, better in the EV. The country was trending strongly to the Republicans in 1920 and not even Hoover could have done anything about it. I don't see any reason to think that FDR would have won New York with Hoover at the top of the ticket when he didn't with Cox there.

Hoover's position on the issues, particularly the whole League of Nations/Treaty of Versailles mess, would have had some effect. Cox and Roosevelt bravely but unnecessarily took the Wilsonian line, and it undoubtedly cost them votes, though they probably wouldn't have come close to winning in any event. If Hoover had hewed the Wilsonian line as well, he would have done worse than if he repudiated it to some degree.

[Lincoln Republican]

Hoover runs slightly stronger than Cox, adding Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia to the Democratic totals.

Hoover wins his home state of California by a razor thin margin.

However, there is such a strong Republican trend in the nation by 1920, than no Democrat would have won.  The nation wants to put the ambiguity of the Wilson years behind them, and gives Harding an impressive win. 

Instead of 404/127 as in actual

Harding/Coolidge                 361
Hoover/Roosevelt                170