Work in progress — cycles are added one at a time. Every quote is machine-verified against an archived source; follow the links to read it.
| Cycle | Candidate | Issue | Position | Kind | Strength | Attribution | Ev. | Verdict |
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| 1932 | Albert C. Ritchie | Federal responsibility for relief | States' rights and business-led recovery — no federal intervention in relief | pledge_forward | directional_stance | reported | C | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Farm prices and agricultural surplus | Restore purchasing power to the farming half of the nation | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | kept |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Farm prices and agricultural surplus | Raise staple farm prices by a tariff-equivalent benefit plus voluntary production control, at no cost to the Treasury | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | kept? |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Farm and home mortgage relief | Government assistance to keep home-owners and farm-owners from foreclosure | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | kept |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Balancing the federal budget | Balance the federal budget annually within revenues | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | broken? |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Level of federal spending | Cut the cost of the federal government by at least 25 percent | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | reversed? |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | International economic and monetary conferences | Convene international monetary and economic conferences to stabilize currencies and restore trade | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | broken? |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Reforestation and land policy | Employ a million men reforesting marginal and abandoned land | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | partial |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Overall role and scale of the federal government | "A new deal for the American people" — work and security through liberal, planned government action | pledge_forward | vague_gesture | candidate_direct | A | kept? |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Overall role and scale of the federal government | Government as a check on concentrated economic power — "individualism" redefined as equality of opportunity | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | kept |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Overall role and scale of the federal government | An "economic declaration of rights" — the right to make a living and the right to safe savings | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | kept? |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Restriction of immigration | Continue immigration restriction to protect labor, but end abuses against individual families in enforcement | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | kept |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | National economic planning | National economic planning on the model of the 1917 war mobilization | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | partial? |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | National economic planning | Industry leaders to organize cooperatively for the common good; government regulates only as a last resort | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | partial? |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Public works as employment policy | Public works spending is only a stopgap, not a cure for unemployment | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | reversed |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Public works as employment policy | Expand self-sustaining public works and temporary federal work (forests, flood control, waterways), with advance planning | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | kept |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Public works as employment policy | 'Employment for all surplus labor at all times' through self-liquidating public works (the Shearon letter, as Hoover read it) | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | opponent_characterization | B | partial? |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Distribution of national income and purchasing power | A more equitable distribution of national income — higher reward to labor, lower to speculative capital | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | partial? |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Working hours and labor standards | Spread employment by substantially reducing hours of labor, starting in government service | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | kept |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Restoring the commodity price level (reflation) | Restore commodity prices toward their former dollar value rather than write down all debts | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | kept |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Federal responsibility for relief | Federal leadership in distress relief — federal credit to states whose resources are exhausted | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | kept |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Tariff levels | Revise the tariff downward through reciprocal trade agreements | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | kept |
| 1932 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Railroad regulation and consolidation | Six-point railroad program — conditional federal support, receivership reform, ICC regulation of trucks and holding companies, consolidation | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | partial |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Farm prices and agricultural surplus | Farm prices can be restored only by general recovery and markets — no production control, no subsidies; repeal Farm Board stabilization | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Short-term and marketing credit for agriculture | Restore short-term farm credit through the new agricultural credit corporations, RFC loans to processors and financing of export sales | defense_of_record | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Regulation of banks and securities | Reform the banking laws; stop credit flowing to speculation; relieve depositors of closed banks | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Farm and home mortgage relief | The Federal Home Loan Bank system to stop home foreclosures and finance new homes | defense_of_record | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | kept |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Regulation of banks and securities | The RFC and the 'shield of Government credit' saved 5,000 institutions and must continue — but no direct government lending to everyone | defense_of_record | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Farm and home mortgage relief | Reorganize and enlarge the Federal Land Banks to refinance farm mortgages; curb Joint Stock Land Bank abuses | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Level of federal spending | Cut federal spending $1.5 billion below fiscal 1932 and reorganize the executive branch | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Balancing the federal budget | A balanced budget as 'the foundation of all public and private financial stability' | defense_of_record | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Overall role and scale of the federal government | Preserve 'ordered freedom' and equality of opportunity; reject a state-controlled or state-directed economy as 'tyranny' | pledge_forward | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Restriction of immigration | Continue the executive order practically prohibiting immigration except relatives of residents | defense_of_record | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Public works as employment policy | Federal construction at three times normal and $1.5 billion of RFC loans for self-liquidating works — but no pork-barrel or non-productive projects | defense_of_record | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Maintenance of wage levels in depression | Uphold wages and spread work by voluntary agreement of employers and labor; shorter hours in government service | defense_of_record | directional_stance | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Gold standard and currency basis | Hold the gold standard and the 'honest dollar'; no fiat money, no 'rubber dollar' price-fixing | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Herbert Hoover | Federal responsibility for relief | Relief through voluntary mobilization and local responsibility, with RFC loans to exhausted states — no federal dole | defense_of_record | specific_pledge | candidate_direct | A | not_applicable |
| 1932 | John Nance Garner | Public works as employment policy | The Garner-Rainey $1.2 billion public-works bill — and a pledge to reintroduce it | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | opponent_characterization | B | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Norman Thomas | Public ownership of major industries | Transfer the principal industries — banking, natural resources, utilities — to social ownership by compensation, not confiscation | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | party_platform | B | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Norman Thomas | Public works as employment policy | A $5 billion federal public-works program — roads, reforestation, slum clearance, workers' housing — and idle factories and land turned over to the unemployed | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | party_platform | B | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Norman Thomas | Working hours and labor standards | The six-hour day and five-day week without reduction in wages | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | party_platform | B | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Norman Thomas | Unemployment insurance | Compulsory unemployment insurance funded by employers and by higher income and inheritance taxes | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | party_platform | B | not_applicable |
| 1932 | Norman Thomas | Federal responsibility for relief | A $5 billion federal appropriation for immediate relief of those in need | pledge_forward | specific_pledge | party_platform | B | not_applicable |