Smith vs. Hoover 1932

[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.

[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.

[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.