re: #307 Nyet

Despite the danger of a Trump presidency I’m beginning to feel good about this election. Awesome people - Barack, Michelle, Joe, Elizabeth - campaigning for an awesome nominee. We will win.

This is looking like its going to be a lopsided landslide like the election campaign of Alf Landon (R) against FDR in 1936. He only carried Maine and Vermont (8 electoral votes to FDR’s 536). He did not carry his home state (Kansas).

As Wikipedia has it, two months after he was nominated by the GOP, he stopped campaigning and disappeared from the spotlight, allowing surrogates to campaign for him (Mr. Trump has hinted he might campaign this way).

A reporter at the time wrote:

“Considerable mystery surrounds the disappearance of Alfred M. Landon of Topeka, Kansas…. The Missing Persons Bureau has sent out an alarm bulletin bearing Mr. Landon’s photograph and other particulars, and anyone having information of his whereabouts is asked to communicate direct with the Republican National Committee.”