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Bluenorthwest

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4. Got a link to show that was a 'common meme' at that time? Because I do not think that is the truth.

Reply to graham4anything (Original post)

Tue Feb 26, 2013, 09:59 AM

Feb 2013

Electoral Vote Count Hoover: 59 Roosevelt: 472
Popular Vote: Hoover: 39.7% Roosevelt: 57.4%
Hoover lost 26% of his first term popular vote. 26%.

FDR won 3 more times.

Hoover's second campaign featured more threats and attempts on his life than any other candidate before or since. His trains and cars were pelted with eggs and rotten produce. A man was arrested having removed spikes from the rail line Hoover used.
He was detested.

So I'd sure be interested to see this evidence you claim.

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If only FDR had not been the same as Herbert Hoover & Cal Coolidge. [View all] graham4anything Feb 2013 OP

K&R riqster Feb 2013 #1

There was a 'common meme' 'back then' that FDR was the same as Hoover and Coolidge? pampango Feb 2013 #2

Same crap as today: favoring bankers, pro-corporation Recursion Feb 2013 #5

Unemployment dropped 40% and GDP grew 8%+ per year in FDR's first term. MannyGoldstein Feb 2013 #6

NONE. Same as President Obama and Bush are NOT in any shape or form the same. graham4anything Feb 2013 #9

One of us is incredibly misinformed about history. nt MannyGoldstein Feb 2013 #3

I know who it is! Capt. Obvious Feb 2013 #7

Got a link to show that was a 'common meme' at that time? Because I do not think that is the truth. Bluenorthwest Feb 2013 #4

Isn't there a concerted effort on the right recently to lionize Coolidge as a great president? Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2013 #8

"But didn't Coolidge help sow the seeds that lead to the depression?" Definitely. pampango Feb 2013 #10