"Why did F D Roosevelt win the elction in 1932?"

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Bhavesh Makwana

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"why did F D Roosevelt win the elction in 1932?"

Franklin D. Roosevelt won the 1932 elections because of the power that he had and the place that he was and the time, at this point the USA needed someone powerful to sort out the problems that they were in as they had a play of a market town, there was no type of and genre towards the state the US was in after the down fall.

At this point there came Hoover, President Hoover carried several serious handicaps into the 1932 presidential elections. He was an incumbent presiding over the worst economic collapse in the nation's history. His political philosophy, while progressive, depended on voluntary actions to achieve his goals, and this voluntary approach failed to materialize during the trauma of the Depression. As a public personality, he was somewhat dour and he was uncomfortable with the business of campaigning. His notion of the role of the President was that of a facilitator who brought the parties together, encouraged partnerships, and supplied the expertise of the engineer to the social problems of a nation. The idea of the President as a powerful and inspirational leader (an idea that Franklin Roosevelt would come to embody) was foreign to him. Put it all together, and a surer prescription for defeat could hardly have been assembled.
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Roosevlt had him self in mor power of the people then people having power of them selfs there were to many problems that to a fact had to me solved and needed someone new to sort out. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, by contrast, was everything Hoover was not. Roosevelt was ebullient and self-confident. He radiated charm and an almost haughty self-assurance. He was supremely optimistic and his big smile and obvious relish of campaigning made millions of Americans feel that he was someone who genuinely cared about them. Politically, he was moved by a single simple philosophical premise: that ...

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