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A budget balanced immediately and a currency based on and convertible into gold — Frank Knox, 1936

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.48	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Gold standard and currency basis	A sound currency preserved at all hazards
0.45	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Regulation of banks and securities	Separate investment banking from commercial banks; tighter national-bank supervision; faster payouts to depositors of closed banks
0.41	1936	Alf Landon	Tariff levels	Protect the farmer against imports of livestock, dairy and farm products; keep non-competing goods on the free list
0.38	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm and home mortgage relief	Low interest rates, sounder home financing, better banking
0.38	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	International economic and monetary conferences	Convene international monetary and economic conferences to stabilize currencies and restore trade
0.37	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal guarantee of bank deposits	Oppose a federal guarantee of bank deposits
0.37	1932	John Nance Garner	Veterans' bonus and benefits	The Patman cash bonus and $2.3 billion of greenbacks, passed by the House under his speakership
0.36	1932	Herbert Hoover	Naval arms and disarmament	Cut world armaments by one-third through the Geneva conference while keeping forces strong enough that 'no foreign soldier will land'
0.36	1936	Alf Landon	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the budget by cutting expenditures, not by raising taxes
0.35	1932	Herbert Hoover	Tariff levels	Maintain — and if necessary widen — the protective tariff; reject the Democratic 'competitive tariff for revenue'
0.35	1932	Herbert Hoover	Veterans' bonus and benefits	Oppose cash prepayment of the veterans' bonus, especially by fiat money
0.35	1932	Norman Thomas	European war debts and reparations	Cancel the war debts (against cancellation of reparations) and raze the tariff wall
0.34	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Balancing the federal budget	Balance the federal budget annually within revenues
0.34	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
0.34	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Tariff levels	Revise the tariff downward through reciprocal trade agreements
0.33	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Restoring the commodity price level (reflation)	Restore commodity prices toward their former dollar value rather than write down all debts
0.32	1932	Alfred E. Smith	European war debts and reparations	A twenty-year moratorium on the war debts, writing them off in proportion to each nation's purchases of American goods
0.31	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public ownership of electric power	Public development of hydro-electric power on the St. Lawrence model, with national control of interstate transmission
0.31	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Farm and home mortgage relief	Government assistance to keep home-owners and farm-owners from foreclosure
0.31	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
0.30	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
0.29	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
0.28	1932	Herbert Hoover	Gold standard and currency basis	Hold the gold standard and the 'honest dollar'; no fiat money, no 'rubber dollar' price-fixing
0.28	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
0.28	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of banks and securities	Reform the banking laws; stop credit flowing to speculation; relieve depositors of closed banks