# SDMB Retrospective US Presidential Elections 1932 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [March 26, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1932/684572 "2014-03-26T01:41:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1932/684572/1 "2014-03-26T01:41:08Z")
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States\_presidential\_election,\_1932](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1932) I would have happily cast a vote for FDR, one of the greatest Presidents in American history. Although this is rather ironic… > [@](#): > > For more than two years, President Hoover had been restricting trade and increasing taxes on the wealthy with legislation such as the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act and the Revenue Act of 1932. Roosevelt lashed out at Hoover: “I accuse the present Administration of being the greatest spending Administration in peacetime in all our history.”[10] Garner accused Hoover of “leading the country down the path of socialism.”[11] The outrage caused by the deaths of veterans in the Bonus Army incident in the summer of 1932, combined with the catastrophic economic effects of Hoover’s domestic policies, reduced his chances of a second term from slim to none. His attempts to campaign in public were a disaster, as he often had objects thrown at him or his vehicle as he rode through city streets. In his addresses, Hoover attacked Roosevelt as a capitalist president who would only make the Depression worse by decreasing taxes, reducing government intervention in the economy, promoting “trade [with] the world”, and cutting “Government—Federal and State and local”.[4] ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1932/684572/2 "2014-03-26T02:15:29Z")
Vote Socialist! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1932/684572/3 "2014-03-26T02:46:33Z")
Hoover sucks! Is that anachronistic? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1932/684572/4 "2014-03-26T02:49:12Z")
Norman be stormin’! That **is** anachronistic, of course, I know. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1932/684572/5 "2014-03-26T03:44:13Z")
It is really hard to evaluate these without taking my knowledge of history into account. Put me down for FDR. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1932/684572/6 "2014-03-26T11:41:16Z")
Of course I would have voted for FDR, after 4 years of the Hoover dirtbag. Happy days are here again! FDR belongs on Mt. Rushmore, not Teddy. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1932/684572/7 "2014-03-26T18:03:56Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > . . . after 4 years of the Hoover dirtbag. I hope you change it more often than **that!** [rimshot] ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1932/684572/8 "2014-03-26T21:15:34Z")
Very few candidates could pull me away from voting my Socialist conscience. FDR is one of those. Eleanor has a lot to do with that—as Hillary said, “two for the price of one.” FDR is the only one likely to be capable of rescuing America at this point. Sorry, Norm.