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he beat the republican of kansas by a margin of 11 million votes. he won 523 electoral votes to only eight for landon. it was a stupendous, unequivocal mandate to fulfill the promises of the new deal. but soon after that earthquake election the political winds shifted, and that overwhelming mandate proved to be fragile. by the spring of 1937, roosevelt s long honeymoon with congress was over. and by 1938 things were falling apart. the country was sliding back into recession, and the supreme court was declaring unconstitutional key new deal legislation. but it was not only economics and checks and balances that frustrated roosevelt. he confronted another problem, too, there was a serious cleavage within his own party. it was true the democrats held staggering majorities in both houses of congress, but that huge democratic majority was deceptive. because conservative democrats, many of whom were from the south, were allying themselves with republicans and voting together ....

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