How was President Hoover's great unpopularity justified or would the economic crises brought on by the Great Depressions have defeated anyone in the election of 1932?

Answer 1

The answer lies at least partially in the fact that although the Great Depression had not yet ended in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt was reelected that year in one of the greatest landslides of all U.S. presidential elections. Of course, those election results are not just a reflection of the popularity of Pres. Roosevelt but a reflection of the combination of Pres. Roosevelt's popularity and the lack of popularity of Alf Landon and whomever else was running. That being stated, whether or not Pres. Roosevelt was making the right decisions, a large majority of adult Americans liked what he was doing, and that was not true of Pres. Hoover four years earlier.