National party platforms, 1840-1964 (1965) online 1840-1956 == External links == 1928 popular vote by counties How close was the 1928 election? — Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Election of 1928 in Counting the Votes Anti-Catholicism in the United States Presidency of Herbert Hoover United States presidential election Al Smith Herbert Hoover
His 87 electoral votes were the fewest that a Democratic candidate had won since the 80 votes earned by Horatio Seymour in 1868.
In Georgia, eight counties recorded more votes cast for "anti-Smith" electors than either major-party candidate,. The electoral votes of North Carolina and Virginia had not been awarded to a Republican since 1872, and Florida had not been carried by a Republican since the heavily disputed election of 1876.
In Georgia, eight counties recorded more votes cast for "anti-Smith" electors than either major-party candidate,. The electoral votes of North Carolina and Virginia had not been awarded to a Republican since 1872, and Florida had not been carried by a Republican since the heavily disputed election of 1876.
Until the major split before the 1948 election in the Democratic Party between Southern Democrats and the more liberal Northern faction, no further significant third-party candidacies as seen in 1912 and 1924 were to occur.
Both faced serious discontent within their respective parties' membership, and both lacked the wholehearted support of their parties' organization. In the end, the Republicans were identified with the booming economy of the 1920s, and Smith, a Roman Catholic, suffered politically from anti-Catholic prejudice, his opposition to Prohibition, and his association with the legacy of corruption by Tammany Hall.
Many voters who sincerely rejected bigotry and the anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan, which had declined during the 1920s until the 1928 campaign revived it, justified their opposition to Smith on their belief that the Catholic Church was an "un-American" and "alien culture" that opposed freedom and democracy. An example was a statement issued in September 1928 by the National Lutheran Editors' and Managers' Association that opposed Smith's election.
The Republican total leaped to 2,174 counties, a larger number than even the 1920 landslide. Third-party support sank almost to the vanishing point, as the election of 1928 proved to be a two-party contest to a greater extent than any other in the Fourth Party System.
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Davis had in 1924. Smith received nearly as many votes as Coolidge had in 1924, and his vote exceeded Davis's by more than 6,500,000.
The Democratic vote was greater than in 1924 in 2080 counties and fell in 997 counties.
Until the major split before the 1948 election in the Democratic Party between Southern Democrats and the more liberal Northern faction, no further significant third-party candidacies as seen in 1912 and 1924 were to occur.
The 1928 United States presidential election was the 36th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 6, 1928.
As Hoover's party opponents failed to unite around a candidate, Hoover received a large majority of the vote at the 1928 Republican National Convention.
The strong state of the economy discouraged some Democrats from running, and Smith was nominated on the first ballot of the 1928 Democratic National Convention.
Hoover and Smith had been widely known as potential presidential candidates long before the 1928 campaign, and both were generally regarded as outstanding leaders.
Many voters who sincerely rejected bigotry and the anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan, which had declined during the 1920s until the 1928 campaign revived it, justified their opposition to Smith on their belief that the Catholic Church was an "un-American" and "alien culture" that opposed freedom and democracy. An example was a statement issued in September 1928 by the National Lutheran Editors' and Managers' Association that opposed Smith's election.
The Republican total leaped to 2,174 counties, a larger number than even the 1920 landslide. Third-party support sank almost to the vanishing point, as the election of 1928 proved to be a two-party contest to a greater extent than any other in the Fourth Party System.
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National party platforms, 1840-1964 (1965) online 1840-1956 == External links == 1928 popular vote by counties How close was the 1928 election? — Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Election of 1928 in Counting the Votes Anti-Catholicism in the United States Presidency of Herbert Hoover United States presidential election Al Smith Herbert Hoover
Campaign Addresses 1929. Chester, Edward W A guide to political platforms (1977) online Porter, Kirk H.
Until the major split before the 1948 election in the Democratic Party between Southern Democrats and the more liberal Northern faction, no further significant third-party candidacies as seen in 1912 and 1924 were to occur.
Hoover was the last Republican to win a presidential election until 1952.
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Georgia would not be won by a Republican until 1964 when Barry Goldwater carried the Peach State.
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The election of Charles Curtis as the vice president alongside Hoover marked Curtis as the first Native American and first person with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the highest offices in the federal executive branch. With Hoover's victory, this cycle marked the last time until 1988 in which Republicans have won the presidency three consecutive times.
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As of the 2020 election, this is the last time that the party of the incumbent president won without their nominee being the incumbent president or the incumbent vice president. After President Calvin Coolidge declined to seek reelection, Hoover emerged as his party's frontrunner.
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