WI/AHC: Hoover wins in 1932

Is there any scenario in which Herbert Hoover could win re-election in 1932? If so, what sort of policies would he pursue, and how does this affect the Great Depression?
 
It would be a little shorter, his policies were similar to FDR's but not as far reaching. Neither "deficit-spended" enough to really "fix" the economy. The Depression might have ended a little sooner without the instability of FDR's gold confiscation and competing agencies running amok.
 

Thomas1195

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It would be a little shorter, his policies were similar to FDR's but not as far reaching. Neither "deficit-spended" enough to really "fix" the economy. The Depression might have ended a little sooner without the instability of FDR's gold confiscation and competing agencies running amok.
No banking reforms mean ready for another financial crisis within the following 2-3 decades. Friedman also criticized Hoover for not bailing out banks.
 

Thomas1195

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People do not remember that far back. No one blames Clinton for the banking "reforms" that led to 2008. So, it would satisfy the OP.
Roosevelt bailed out the banks. He introduced FDIC and Glass-Steagal Act. Well, it would not be fun at all without deposit insurance being introduced in 1933. Under Hoover, banks might continue to go bust and people continue to see their savings being wiped out. He already demonstrated that he was not willing to enforce bank holidays to suspend deposit outflows. And without the suspension of Gold Standard, then no expansionary monetary policy and good luck having recovery.
 

Wallet

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Easy, the Great Depression is postponed 4 years. Hoover wins in a landslide. Idk how, I'm not an economist.
 
Roosevelt bailed out the banks. He introduced FDIC and Glass-Steagal Act. Well, it would not be fun at all without deposit insurance being introduced in 1933. Under Hoover, banks might continue to go bust and people continue to see their savings being wiped out. He already demonstrated that he was not willing to enforce bank holidays to suspend deposit outflows. And without the suspension of Gold Standard, then no expansionary monetary policy and good luck having recovery.
I have read that the bank failures have already bottomed out in 32, so FDR's measures might have not actually fixed anything, but just fallen into place as things righted themselves.
 
The 18th amendment remain in effect at least 4 more years with all the harm it would do in regards to the maffia and corruption
 
Hughes beats Wilson in 1916. The Democrats then win in 1920 after the war. In the Democrat's second term, a recession occurs in 1927 and Hoover beats the Democratic nominee in 1928. After presiding over the recovery, he wins reelection.
 
The only way I see this happening is Warren G. Harding never dies in office, and is narrowly reelected in 1924. His corruption takes light, and Al Smith is elected in 1928 against VP Calvin Coolidge. The Great Depression still happens and he is blamed, then Hoover runs in 1932, after coming second at the 1928 convention, and wins in a landslide, remaining president until 1941
 
Have the Democrats win in 1928, and said Democrat run for re-election. They get the blame for the Great Depression and Hoover uses this much like FDR did IOTL. That'd be the easiest way to do it, though I don't know what Democrat would do the job in '28 given how badly Al Smith lost
 
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