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Continue immigration restriction to protect labor, but end abuses against individual families in enforcement — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.51	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal action against organized crime and narcotics	Rigid federal penal laws against gangsters, racketeers and kidnappers; relentless war on narcotics
0.49	1932	Norman Thomas	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Economic, political and legal equality for the Negro; a federal anti-lynching law; enforce the First Amendment
0.47	1932	Herbert Hoover	Restriction of immigration	Continue the executive order practically prohibiting immigration except relatives of residents
0.47	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'
0.45	1932	Herbert Hoover	National Prohibition	Resubmit the Eighteenth Amendment so each state may decide, with constitutional guarantees against the saloon and against interference with dry states; enforce the law meanwhile
0.44	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Antitrust and concentration of economic power	Vigorously enforce the antitrust laws and restore their efficacy against new corporate devices
0.44	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Guard the worker's right to organize and bargain collectively
0.44	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Antitrust and concentration of economic power	Strengthen and impartially enforce the antitrust laws
0.43	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
0.42	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Civil service and patronage	Immediately extend the merit system to all non-policy-making federal positions
0.41	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Control of credit expansion	Prevent another runaway credit expansion through government information, not government control of credit
0.40	1932	Herbert Hoover	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Collective bargaining by representatives of the employees' own choice, 'without the interference of any one'
0.40	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Executive reciprocal trade agreements (1934 Act)	Continue the reciprocal trade agreements to lower barriers against American exports
0.40	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	National economic planning	Industry leaders to organize cooperatively for the common good; government regulates only as a last resort
0.39	1932	Albert C. Ritchie	National Prohibition	Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment as a matter of states' rights
0.39	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
0.38	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Policy toward Latin America and the Western Hemisphere	The Good Neighbor: no armed intervention, no territorial expansion, reduction of armaments
0.37	1932	Herbert Hoover	Policy toward Latin America and the Western Hemisphere	Withdraw the Marines from Nicaragua after the 1932 election and from Haiti under the Forbes Commission plan; 'no imperialistic ambitions'
0.37	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
0.36	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Direct relief for the unemployed	Provide useful work at prevailing wages for the needy unemployed rather than a dole
0.36	1932	Norman Thomas	Independence of the Supreme Court	A Workers' Rights Amendment; curb the Supreme Court's power over Congress; proportional representation; direct election of the President
0.35	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges	No federal 'blue sky' law — securities regulation belongs to the states, and the President should not police booms
0.35	1932	John Nance Garner	Regulation of banks and securities	RFC loans to individuals and corporations generally — 'the Government into personal banking' (the Rainey bill)
0.35	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'
0.34	1936	Alf Landon	Unemployment insurance	Leave unemployment insurance to State experiment; no federal tax to compel it