History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1543 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Election of 1936
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The idea
In nineteen thirty-six Roosevelt beat the Republican Alf Landon by an electoral vote of five hundred twenty-three to eight, carrying every state but Maine and Vermont.
In practice
Democratic majorities of three hundred thirty-one to eighty-nine in the House and seventy-six to sixteen in the Senate, Digital History counts.
Where people slip
Digital History adds that about seventy-five percent of Black voters supported the Democrats that year.
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