1936

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Alfred M. Landon, the Republican candidate for president, was given the difficult job of opposing the popular Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936. The Republicans painted New Deal programs as costly, ineffective, and ruinous (38A-1067099, 38B-1067100). They had much hope that Landon's popularity in the West would carry the East (38C-1067101). This cartoonist depicts the 1936 election as the one to blast a new kind of tyranny out of America, a tyranny represented by FDR's New Deal (38D-1067102). But as this cartoonist points out, "You can't scare Uncle Sam." (38E-1067103) 

The campaign also included various undercurrents of slander and mud-slinging; Roosevelt was accused of being a traitor to his class (38F-1067104). And this cartoonist parodies the efforts of a smear campaign against Landon (38G-1067105). But no one could deny that things were better in 1936 than in 1932, and the people voted accordingly. Roosevelt was re-elected by a landslide.