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Cheaper electricity and rural electrification by the 'yardstick' method — Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.51	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
0.50	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
0.49	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'
0.48	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm and home mortgage relief	Low interest rates, sounder home financing, better banking
0.46	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
0.46	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
0.45	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
0.42	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Restore purchasing power to the farming half of the nation
0.41	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
0.41	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Maintain — and if necessary widen — the protective tariff; reject the Democratic 'competitive tariff for revenue'
0.40	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
0.40	1932	Herbert Hoover	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of war debts; apply any annual payment to opening foreign markets for American farm products
0.40	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Preserve the bipartisan Tariff Commission's flexible power to adjust rates without congressional log-rolling
0.39	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm and home mortgage relief	The Federal Home Loan Bank system to stop home foreclosures and finance new homes
0.39	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm prices and agricultural surplus	Continue soil conservation and domestic allotment payments; end ruinous surpluses; commodity loans on seasonal surpluses
0.39	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Tariff levels	A "competitive" tariff set through a scientific Tariff Commission, with anti-log-rolling rules and a public counsel
0.39	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Reforestation and land policy	Employ a million men reforesting marginal and abandoned land
0.38	1932	Herbert Hoover	Planned use of land and retirement of marginal farmland	Support a sound program to divert land from unprofitable to profitable use
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
0.38	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Crop insurance and storage reserves	Crop insurance and a stable food supply
0.37	1932	Norman Thomas	Farm and home mortgage relief	Government aid to farmers and small home-owners against foreclosure and tax sales; moratorium on interest debated
0.37	1936	Alf Landon	Tariff levels	Protect the farmer against imports of livestock, dairy and farm products; keep non-competing goods on the free list
0.36	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm tenancy and access to land ownership	A definite reduction of farm tenancy; refinance farm debt at low rates over long terms
0.36	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Reorganization of the executive branch	Consolidate the seven federal farm-mortgage agencies under a single purpose
0.36	1936	William Lemke	Farm and home mortgage relief	Refinance farm mortgages through the Frazier-Lemke plan (government-issued credit at low interest)