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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 — Herbert Hoover, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.43	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
0.38	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Concentrated economic power vs. the average citizen (rhetorical framing)	Take power from the 'economic royalists': the mandate of 1932 is to end economic tyranny
0.37	1932	Alfred E. Smith	National Prohibition	Outright repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment — the issue Roosevelt was downplaying
0.35	1932	Norman Thomas	Old-age pensions and social insurance	Old-age pensions for men and women sixty and over
0.33	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Income and inheritance tax progressivity	Raise revenue by graduated income, inheritance and profits taxes, not taxes on necessities
0.33	1936	Frank Knox	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	New federal activities only when legalized by constitutional amendment -- 'the horse and buggy method'
0.32	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
0.32	1932	Herbert Hoover	Child welfare and schooling	Federal aid to states for child protection and health; continued White House conferences on children, homes and illiteracy
0.31	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm and home mortgage relief	The Federal Home Loan Bank system to stop home foreclosures and finance new homes
0.31	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Antitrust and concentration of economic power	Vigorously enforce the antitrust laws and restore their efficacy against new corporate devices
0.30	1936	Huey P. Long	Distribution of national income and purchasing power	Share Our Wealth: cap fortunes, guarantee every family a homestead and income
0.30	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Income and inheritance tax progressivity	Taxes levied according to ability to pay; lower taxes for 99 percent, higher at the top
0.30	1932	Herbert Hoover	Independence of the Supreme Court	Preserve the independence of the Supreme Court from party control
0.30	1932	Herbert Hoover	Balancing the federal budget	A balanced budget as 'the foundation of all public and private financial stability'
0.29	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Restore purchasing power to the farming half of the nation
0.29	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Income and inheritance tax progressivity	Defense of the undistributed-profits tax as a loophole-closer; correct imperfections if found
0.29	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of banks and securities	Reform the banking laws; stop credit flowing to speculation; relieve depositors of closed banks
0.28	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Antitrust and concentration of economic power	Strengthen and impartially enforce the antitrust laws
0.28	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
0.28	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Federal responsibility for relief	Federal leadership in distress relief — federal credit to states whose resources are exhausted
0.28	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
0.27	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
0.27	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Planned use of land and retirement of marginal farmland	A national policy of planned land use — economic soil survey and retirement of marginal farmland
0.27	1932	Herbert Hoover	Philippine independence	Gradual Philippine independence — economic independence first, with duty-free sugar cut from 600,000 tons downward every year
0.26	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Local government consolidation and the tax burden on land	Presidential leadership to consolidate local governments and lift the tax burden on land