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Presidential campaign promise tracker

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Cycles

Year	Election	Winner	Candidates	Positions	Summary
1932	1932-11-08	Franklin D. Roosevelt	8	126	Fought in the third year of the Depression with unemployment near 25%. Hoover ran on his record (RFC, moratorium, public works, tariff) and warned that Roosevelt's program would deepen the collapse; Roosevelt ran on a "new deal" whose specifics were deliberately elastic, combining orthodox pledges (balanced budget, sound currency, 25% spending cut) with promises of relief, farm price support, public power, securities regulation and repeal. Roosevelt won 472–59 in the Electoral College and 57.4% of the popular vote; Norman Thomas polled 2.2%.
1936	1936-11-03	Franklin D. Roosevelt	8	73	A referendum on the New Deal. Roosevelt, renominated without opposition, ran on his record ('economic royalists', 'I welcome their hatred') and a platform of continuing relief, social security, wages-and-hours and farm programs, while promising a balanced budget from rising national income. Landon, the only Republican governor re-elected in 1934, accepted a platform that pledged to preserve free enterprise and the Constitution, cut spending, repeal the compulsory old-age insurance plan for a pay-as-you-go pension, repeal the reciprocal trade agreements and continue farm cash benefits. The Union Party (Lemke, backed by Coughlin, Townsend and G. L. K. Smith) tried to hold the inflationist left. The Literary Digest straw poll predicted Landon; Roosevelt won 60.8% and 523 of 531 electoral votes, carrying every state but Maine and Vermont.