Smith vs. Hoover 1932

[they don't love you like i love you]

what would a rematch look like? would the Great Depression do Hoover in or was Smith's baggage still too much?

I say:



sorry PBrunsel, but Hoover was beyond toast.

[Gabu]

I think that there were so many people angry at Hoover and his so-called Hoovervilles that you could have put up a banana peel as the Democratic candidate and it would have won in a landslide.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Can you imagine PBrunsel during the time period? He'd get into an argument on every street corner defending Hoover, lol.

[PBrunsel]

Hoover was saddly doomed in 1932, unless the Bonus Army did not occur.

Smith would win, but not in a landslide like FDR did. A third party, the Consitutional Democrats, would run a candidate for the South due to anger over Al Smith's Catholicism.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Hoover was saddly doomed in 1932, unless the Bonus Army did not occur.

oh come on. it's not like the Great Depression had anything to do with it.

The south voted for Smith in 1928 in spite of his Catholicism, so I don't see why they wouldn't again.

[PBrunsel]

Hoover was saddly doomed in 1932, unless the Bonus Army did not occur.

oh come on. it's not like the Great Depression had anything to do with it.

The south voted for Smith in 1928 in spite of his Catholicism, so I don't see why they wouldn't again.

Hoover won such states as Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, and Tennessee in 1928. All of those states but Kentucky were former Confederate States. The ststes that did go to Smith were super partisan Democratic states like South Carolina.

The Bonus Army cost Hoover reelection. Even FDR told his aide Harold Ickes, "This elects me" when he heard about the Bonus Army Disaster.

[Schmitz in 1972]

Hoover was saddly doomed in 1932, unless the Bonus Army did not occur.

oh come on. it's not like the Great Depression had anything to do with it.

The south voted for Smith in 1928 in spite of his Catholicism, so I don't see why they wouldn't again.

Hoover won such states as Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Kentucky, and Tennessee in 1928. All of those states but Kentucky were former Confederate States. The ststes that did go to Smith were super partisan Democratic states like South Carolina.

1928 was the only time (not counting reconstruction) that Virginia voted for a Republican until 1952.

[PBrunsel]

Al Smith/Claude Pepper: 350

Herbert Hoover/Charles Curtis: 181

If no independent Southern candidate ran this would happen. I might be guilty of being biased to my hero.

[Schmitz in 1972]

It looks good to me PBrunsel, but I would have had Hoover winning Michigan

[they don't love you like i love you]

and NJ, as it barely voted for FDR.