Could FDR Lose?

What would be required to have Franklin Delano Roosevelt lose in 1932? Obviously, no Great Depressioin, buit any other ideas?
 
Assuming the Great Depression is not a Great Depression, but instead a slight recession then recovery. If the Great Depression is not a Great Depression, maybe Hoover would be re-elected by 1932.
 
Assuming a Great Depression, then the only vaguely plausible scenario I can think of is an earlier Huey Long or Huey Long-type* insurgent running on a third party ticket and throwing the election to a non-Hoover GOP candidate.

This isn't so ridiculous when you consider FDR ran as a pretty traditional candidate in '32--'36 is when he's a firebrand campaigning against the established order.

(*LaFollete won 16% in 1924--you need someone to repeat that in this election.)
 
Elections are never won. They are always lost. FDR could have lost if Alfred E. Smith and Garner left the party.

If Hoover declines to run for reelection to act as a fall guy, then you could see a three way race with a Republican defeating a split Democratic party with 40%. Sort of a reversed 1912.
 
What would be required to have Franklin Delano Roosevelt lose in 1932? Obviously, no Great Depressioin, buit any other ideas?

Have Garner not throw his support to the Roosevelt camp after two days of balloting stalemate at Chicago.
 
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