The GOP was doomed!
by David Adesnik | August 1, 2009
Analogies are flying. What year is this for Republicans? 1964? 1976? 1992? I think 1937 deserves more attention. I noticed this in a review of a book about FDR:
Roosevelt had won the 1936 election by a crushing landslide–a total of 61 percent of the popular vote that enabled him to carry all but two of the 48 states–and his Democratic coalition of labor, northern liberals, and the Solid South had similarly steamrollered through Congress in 1936, leaving the wounded Republicans, who had reigned supreme in both houses during the prosperous 1920s, with a pathetic 17 senators (out of 96) and 88 House members (out of 435).
Makes 2009 seem like paradise.
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