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| Cycle | Candidate | Issue | Position | Kind | Strength | Attribution | Ev. | Verdict |
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| 1936 | Alf Landon | Farm prices and agricultural surplus | Cash benefits on the domestically consumed portion of export crops to make the tariff effective, limited to the family-type farm; no scarcity program, no processing tax | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Crop insurance and storage reserves | Give crop insurance 'the fullest attention' | pledge_forward | vague_gesture | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Drought and disaster relief for farmers | Pay every outstanding AAA check and continue drought relief checks and seed loans | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | On-farm storage, warehouse receipts and commodity credit | Amend the warehousing act so grain stored on the farm earns a federal warehouse receipt and bank credit | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges | Keep federal regulation of securities marketing and interstate utilities, vested in independent tribunals under definite standards subject to court review | pledge_forward | directional_stance | party_platform | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Balancing the federal budget | Balance the budget by cutting expenditures, not by raising taxes | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans | Equal opportunity for colored citizens: protect their economic status and personal safety; further their employment | pledge_forward | directional_stance | party_platform | B | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Civil service and patronage | Restore, improve and extend the merit system 'virtually destroyed by New Deal spoilsmen' | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | B | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | European war debts and reparations | Use every effort to collect the war debts due from foreign countries | pledge_forward | directional_stance | party_platform | B | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Teachers' loyalty oaths and academic freedom | No loyalty oath for teachers that is not required of all citizens | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | reported | B | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Conservation of natural resources | Real soil conservation and a national land-use and flood-prevention program run with the States and 'out of politics' | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Overall role and scale of the federal government | Restore confidence by 'unshackling initiative': steady, open, non-partisan administration that stops 'fumbling with recovery' | pledge_forward | vague_gesture | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Reorganization of the executive branch | Cooperate with Congress to reorganize agencies, abolish unnecessary ones and eliminate duplication | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power | Wages, hours and child labor by State law and interstate compact -- and a constitutional amendment giving the States power if the courts forbid | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Independence of the Supreme Court | An independent Supreme Court secure from executive or legislative invasion; maintain the balance between States and nation | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Antitrust and concentration of economic power | Use the full power of the federal government to break up private monopolies and enforce the antitrust laws 'without fear or favor' | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | National economic planning | End federal regimentation: no revival of NRA or AAA controls, no more emergency powers over production, wages and hours | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Flood control and river-basin development | Federal construction of head-water storage basins to prevent floods, with the consent of the States concerned | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | party_platform | B | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Right to organize and bargain collectively | Labor's right to organize in any union it prefers, free from coercion by employer, fellow employee or anyone else; organizers' lawful activity protected | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | B | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Right to organize and bargain collectively | Government as umpire and mediator; develop conciliation instead of rushing disputes to the President's doorstep | pledge_forward | vague_gesture | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Gold standard and currency basis | Sound currency 'at all hazards'; no further devaluation; repeal the laws delegating the money power to the Executive | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Politics and patronage in relief administration | Relief will continue, but purged of politics, administered locally on merit, with economies taken from 'the political exploiters' | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go) | Repeal the compulsory old-age insurance plan; pay every needy citizen over 65 a pension from a direct, widely distributed tax | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Unemployment insurance | Leave unemployment insurance to State experiment; no federal tax to compel it | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Federal youth work and education programs (CCC, NYA) | Continue the Civilian Conservation Corps, add education fitting enrollees for private jobs, and take the politicians out of its administration | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Executive reciprocal trade agreements (1934 Act) | Repeal the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act; return treaty power to the Senate and tariff-making to Congress | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | B | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Tariff levels | Protect the farmer against imports of livestock, dairy and farm products; keep non-competing goods on the free list | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1936 | Alf Landon | Neutrality, arms embargoes and staying out of foreign wars | Promote peace by all honorable means; no League, no World Court, no plan that could involve the U.S. in a war it had no part in beginning | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |