| In 1936, there was a third-party candidate (besides the Socialists and Prohibitionists): William Lemke for the Union Party formed by the anti-Semitic Father Coughlin's National Union for Social Justice. He took nearly 900,000 votes and 2% of the national popular vote, but not enough, I think, to swing any state either way (even if his voters had voted all one way, which would have been highly unlikely, as some of them were old-fashioned far right-wingers and others unhappy voters from such classically Democratic constituencies as South Boston). |