Word: republicanized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward O. Schaaf of Newark, N. J., Hooverite, was misquoted by the Republican National Committee and "in consequence" announced he would switch his vote to Smith. "I am thoroughly disgusted with the behavior of the Republican National Committee," said irate Dr. Schaaf...
Full Measure. Reasons omitted, the Hoover victory loomed as one to which Republicans would be able to point with effective pride for several political generations. Against the most formidable Democrat since Wilson, Hoover had won the most overwhelming majority since Grant smothered Tammany's Seymour (1868). It was the greatest electoral majority ever-444 to 87. The Harding landslide of 1920 was considered remarkable when it chipped Tennessee and Oklahoma off the Solid South. The Hoover avalanche included both these States and also swept away the Democracy's corner anchors, old Virginia and North Carolina, fruitful Florida, vast...
Reasons. Politics is the art of speaking convincingly on selected topics. The reasons they advanced why Hoover should be elected were the reasons Republicans stressed, in public, to explain why he was elected. Democrats to the contrary notwithstanding (see p. 24), the Republican explanations were...
...terminus of the brief, embattled Smith leadership in the national Democracy. It silenced any reproaches that might have been uttered against the party-faithless South. The victories in Massachusetts and Rhode Island only intensified the disappointment in New York. If those people had voted for him, and if arch-Republican Connecticut had come within 40,000 of chiming in, why had his own people forsaken him? The four times they had sent him to Albany, his plurality in New York City had always been about half a million. That would probably have been enough this time, at least to give...
Reasons. It could fairly be said that Governor Smith shared honors with the radio in getting out the largest Presidential vote on record. He was the chief attraction if not the leading issue. Why was he voted so far down by all the people? Republican protests to the contrary notwithstanding, the most frequent and forcible Democratic explanations were...