This is a capital question. This is really a race between two New Dealers and a much more radical social welfare advocate. The King Fish would not prove to be a spolier, in my opinion. I do feel, however, that his entry into the race would have pushed Governor Alf Landon to run a far more conservative campaign in a hope to use a split vote on the left to propel himself into the Oval Office.
On Election Day, Long's anti-Roosevelt campaign theme plays to the tune of his homestate and almost 16% of the popular vote. Long bests Landon in every Southern state except Virginia and nearly wins the states of Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas, but falls short in each state. President Roosevelt wins a big vicotry in the electoral college, but the third party challenge from Senator Long depletes his popular vicotry to less than 150,000 or so votes.
Franklin Roosevelt/John N. Garner (D): 351 EV; 42.1% of the PVAlfred Landon/John Knox (R): 170 EV; 41.1% of the PVHuey Long/Francis Townsend (SW): 10 EV; 15.6% of the PVOt
hers (Socialist, Prohibition, etc.): 0 EV; 1.3% of the PV
