WI: Calvin Coolidge elected in 1932

In 1932, there was talk within the Republican Party of choosing former President Calvin Coolidge to replace the incumbent President Herbert Hoover as the Republican nominee for President. OTL, Coolidge said no, and nearly gave a shermanesque statement. My quesiton is, suppose that Coolidge had said yes instead and secured the Republican nomination. How would he have fared against FDR in the General Election? If he were elected, how would the US have fared with him taking a then-unprecedented third term in 1932?
 
No Republican can win in 1932 and Cal wouldn't accept anyways.
Interestingly, Coolidge would have died before his ASB inauguration.
 
Yes, as others have said Coolidge would never have accepted anything short of a very vocal draft to run for the Presidency again (in other words being Seymour'd). Even then, he would have run a Rose Garden Strategy and let other campaign for him, simply remaining within his home until the day after the election for the most part. He may get an additional few percentage points and pick up Ohio, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, possibly also Michigan, but it is still a landslide victory for FDR.​
 
In 1932, there was talk within the Republican Party of choosing former President Calvin Coolidge to replace the incumbent President Herbert Hoover as the Republican nominee for President. OTL, Coolidge said no, and nearly gave a shermanesque statement. My quesiton is, suppose that Coolidge had said yes instead and secured the Republican nomination. How would he have fared against FDR in the General Election? If he were elected, how would the US have fared with him taking a then-unprecedented third term in 1932?

If Coolidge does go for it, he probably clinches the nomination for... well, not being Hoover. FDR still wins a similarly huge landslide though.
I suspect that only an extremely charismatic republican outsider who takes every opportunity to drag Hoover's name through the mud stands a chance of winning the 1932 election and even then it'd be a near ASB long shot.
As a former president Coolidge is no outsider and it'd be easy for FDR to blame Coolidge for being the real cause of the depression, having not taken the opportunity to prevent its effects before leaving office.
There are interesting possibilities a few years down the line though. With a more recent case of a party ousting a former president at the nomination stage, might both parties be less reluctant to deny renomination to an unpopular incumbent?
 
If Coolidge's son doesn't die, he won't go into the years-long stage of depression as in OTL. That might lead to him running for president in 1932. Some have suggested that he'll live past 1936 without the grief from his son's death, but IMO he would be just as stressed by the pressures of the presidency during the Great Depression and would die soon anyway.

He'd still lose in '32 though.
 
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