Reply To: Political Statements
From 1920 to 1928, the Republicans won three consecutive presidential elections, and when the economy started going south in 1929, they were seen as responsible. Laissez-faire policies drove the country further into the ground, and by 1932, the electorate was seriously frustrated with the GOP, which was foolish enough to present Hoover for re-election. The short-term results were predictable, but the long-term results are surprising: from 1932 to 1964, the Democrats won seven of the next nine presidential elections. Fairly or unfairly, a generation of Republican presidential candidates was tarred by the association with Hoover, fiddling while Rome burned, not to be trusted with the economy.
The flip side, of course, is that since 1968 the Republicans have won seven of ten presidential elections.