Sen. Robert LaFollete Jr./Governor Alfred Landon: 423 Electoral Votes 59.4%Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt/Senator Alben Barkley: 108 Electoral Votes 40.6%The Election of 1932 was a wacky and crazy one. President Herbert Hoover was defeated for renomination by his only party by a more progressive and reformist LaFollete. Even though the republicans were unpopular, LaFollete casted his image as an outsider and won the moderate and progressive votes in a landslide over Roosevelt, who was tied with LaFollete for conservatives. Roosevelt and Barkley were both embarrassingly defeated in their home states, Kentucky was a huge loss and New York was lost by a few percentage points, really bad for Roosevelt. It seemed these two mens' futures' were bleak. But America' wasn't....