1936 election

There is a great thread about this from about 8 years ago, but I was hoping to reignite discussion on this subject. "bguy" deconstructed much of the mythology regarding Garner being this very conservative, anti-New Deal figure, and laid out a case for Garner, though being far less pro labor than...

So in the TL "The Falcon Cannot Hear", FDR is killed by Zangara like he almost was OTL. Later, due to his policies, Garner loses in 1936 to Alf Landon and due to how Landon handles the country, it slowly crumbles into a Civil War. However, given how that TL is over nine years old at this point...

As you can tell from my username, I am obviously a fan of Alf Landon, but how good of a President would he be? Let's say, in 1936, Huey Long runs, splits the vote, and Alf wins. For some background on Landon, he was a supporter of Roosevelt in 1912, and liked most of the New Deal but criticized...

"...When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government..." - extract from the Declaration of Independence As the new decade dawns, America is...

The 1936 election is famous for FDR's massive landslide against Alf Landon, who only won two states - Vermont and Maine. Is it possible that Landon could have done better against the popular Roosevelt? What is the best possible showing that he could have realistically made in the election?