<P> Landon respected and admired Roosevelt and accepted much of the New Deal but objected that it was hostile to business and involved too much waste and inefficiency . Late in the campaign, Landon accused Roosevelt of corruption--that is, of acquiring so much power that he was subverting the Constitution: </P> <P> The President spoke truly when he boasted..."We have built up new instruments of public power ." He spoke truly when he said these instruments could provide "shackles for the liberties of the people...and...enslavement for the public". These powers were granted with the understanding that they were only temporary . But after the powers had been obtained, and after the emergency was clearly over, we were told that another emergency would be created if the power was given up . In other words, the concentration of power in the hands of the President was not a question of temporary emergency . It was a question of permanent national policy . In my opinion the emergency of 1933 was a mere excuse...National economic planning--the term used by this Administration to describe its policy--violates the basic ideals of the American system...The price of economic planning is the loss of economic freedom . And economic freedom and personal liberty go hand in hand . </P> <P> Roosevelt won in a landslide, carrying 46 of the 48 states and bringing in many additional Democratic members of Congress . After Lyndon B. Johnson's 61.1 percent share of the popular vote in 1964, Roosevelt's 60.8 percent is the second - largest percentage in U.S. history since the nearly unopposed election of James Monroe in 1820, and his 98.5% of the electoral vote is the highest in two - party competition . Roosevelt won the largest number of electoral votes ever recorded at that time, so far only surpassed by Ronald Reagan in 1984, when seven more electoral votes were available to contest . Garner won the highest percentage of the electoral vote of any vice president . Landon became the second official major - party candidate since the current system was established to win fewer than ten electoral votes by tying William Howard Taft, who won eight votes in his unsuccessful re-election campaign in 1912 . No major - party candidate has won so few electoral votes since this election . The closest anyone has come was Reagan's 1984 opponent Walter Mondale, who won only thirteen electoral votes . </P> <P> Of the 3,095 counties, parishes and independent cities making returns, Roosevelt won in 2,634 (85 percent) while Landon carried 461 (15 percent). Democrats also expanded their majorities in Congress, winning control of over three - quarters of the seats in each house . The election saw the consolidation of the New Deal coalition; while the Democrats lost some of their traditional allies in big business, they were replaced by groups such as organized labor and African Americans, the latter of whom voted Democratic for the first time since the Civil War . Roosevelt lost high income voters, especially businessmen and professionals, but made major gains among the poor and minorities . He won 86 percent of the Jewish vote, 81 percent of the Catholics, 80 percent of union members, 76 percent of Southerners, 76 percent of Blacks in northern cities, and 75 percent of people on relief . Roosevelt carried 102 of the nation's 106 cities with a population of 100,000 or more . </P>

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