udience up. During the November campaign against Hoover, Roosevelt talked about a few parts of his "New Deal". He spoke of relief and public works money. He wanted to develop a plan to cut agricultural overproduction. However, Roosevelt was quite vague about other plans. He mentioned little about his plans for industrial recovery or labor laws. He talked very little of foreign policy during the campaign. Many believe that he was simply trying to home in on the problems that the American public saw most prominent at the time, which would obviously win him votes. But when it came to election day, Roosevelt seemed like the only viable alternative to Herbert Hoover, who many blamed for the Great Depression. Given this fact Roosevelt could have said just about anything and won the presidency that year. Experts on the subject thought that it was all the administrations leading up to Hoover that doomed the country before him, but public perception was against him. Most American's stuck to their opinion despite the facts. Roosevelt won with 22,821,
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