Tougher re-election: President Hoover in 1932 or President Ford in 1976

Tougher re-election campaign?

  • Hoover 32

    Votes: 76 92.7%

  • Ford 76

    Votes: 6 7.3%
  • Total voters
    82

Hongfan91

Who do you think was more likely to win re-election if it were to happen: Hoover against the backdrop of his mishandling and miscalculations in the great depression against a rising Franklin Roosevelt in 1932 or President Ford against Jimmy Carter in 1976 after the Nixon/ Watergate fiasco?
 

Emperor Julian

Well, considering that Ford came close in the electoral college, and lost the popular vote by 2.1 points, while Hoover was destroyed in the electoral college and lost the popular vote by 17.7 points...
 

Nofix

Hoover, without a doubt. Ford was very close in 1976 (only needing a few states to change by a few percentage points to win). Hoover basically lost all momentum in 1930 and was personally blamed for the failure to deal with the Depression, Ford was at least likable and had Nixon to blame for the economy.
 

Admiral Halsey

Banned
Hoover hands down. No one could've won reelection after the Stock Market crash. Ford meanwhile came damn close to pulling the upset over Carter in 76.
 

Kung Fucious

Hoover in a walk. Ford actually has a shot, if you "rewound the tape" and let things play out over again. Hoover (barring some Earth-shattering POD) is DOA.
 
black angel

black angel

Ford lost because of a single sentence, he misspoke during the debate and said there was no soviet domination in Eastern Europe, and that was that the ethnic Polish vote would never forgive that and the cold warrior hawks and every one worried that Ford might not be up for the job, take away that one line and Ford wins, he was leading in the polls till that line, Hoover was royally and totally 100% FUCKED
 
Gorrister

Gorrister

You have to be smoking something fierce to choose Ford. (Which I did, accidentally however). Hoover possibly could've lost 54-44 or 53-45 if he vetoed Smoot Hawley, but other than that, he is fucked.
 

AdmiralBlake

clicked the wrong option

Ford could have (and nearly did) win in 1976, if he'd have don't better in the debates, he would probably have won a narrow victory

any president up for reeletion in 1932 would probably have been defeated.
 

Just a Rube

As I post, we have 3 votes for Ford. We also have 2 posters who have claimed to have accidentally misclicked and voted for Ford.

Just saying.
 
jpj1421

jpj1421

Hoover's best chance would before the market to crash sometime while Coolidge is in office so he can just keep pointing at him and blaming him for everything that's wrong. I doubt it would do him much good, but it might help a little.
 

Peter Parker

Banned
Hoover would be never win in 1932, it's just impossible

Ford would have won if he had not said one line. This is a bad poll, it should have against Goldwater 1964 or Mondale 1984
 

David T

I can't believe that five people (so far) voted for Ford. Can we put this in perspective? Ford lost Ohio by 48.9-48.7 and Mississippi by 49.6-47.7. Had he carried these two states--and in each case getting less than one percent of the electorate to switch from Carter to Ford would be enough--he would have won. http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/u/usa/pres/1976.txt

I mean in 1932 we are talking about the greatest depression in US history--with 23.6 percent unemployment, compared to 7.7 percent in 1976. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0104719.html "Farm income, on which one-fourth of the population depended, had fallen by a half." http://www.bea.gov/scb/pdf/2007/02 February/0207_history_article.pdf There is no way the situation in 1976 was remotely comparable; even at the depth of the 1974-75 recession in May 1975, unemployment was no higher than 9.0 percent. http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/data/UNRATE.txt
 
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