United States Presidential Election, 1936 (Joe Steele)

The United States presidential election of 1936 proved to be one of the most lop-sided elections in the country's history.

The Campaign
Incumbent President Joe Steele had gained substantial support with his response to the Great Depression, the Four-Year Plan. Moreover, Steele's ability to find traitors to the country within some of its highest offices began to quell some of his critics. The most dramatic of these was the capture, trial, and execution of the so-called "Gang of Four", four Supreme Court justices who had routinely ruled Four-Year Plan legistlation as unconstitutional. Evidence "proved" that the Gang had been in fact secret Nazi spies.

The Election
While Steele was giving the country a taste of the terror he would unleash in later years, the Four-Year Plan did work. Landon was able to capture two states, but the remaining 46 handily went to Steele.