It was just something I was pondering today. Although the Great Depression happened while Herbert Hoover was president, he really wasn't personally responsible -- not only that, but before he was President the guy had a really good reputation for helping the poor and such. I was just thinking that if Al Smith was elected President and the Great Depression happened on schedule, and Smith proved to be as incompetent at fixing it as Hoover was (plausible, given that Smith was very anti-New-Deal in OTL), is it possible that Hoover could make a roaring comeback in 1932? And if so, how would his presidency be? Would he do a better job from learning from Smith's mistakes, or not?