The election results of November 8th, 1932, in the United States should have been expected. For as long as the human race has had popular elections the voters have been in the habit of putting out of power those holding office in a time of economic depression, and giving the others a mandate to try their skill in the handling of the weighty problems of government. In the United States, for instance, the election of 1840 reversed that of 1836 through panic. The panic of 1857 affected the election of 1860, as did also that of 1873 affect the popular vote of 1876. In 1893 Cleveland had to meet the same situation. Taft in 1908 is the sole exception proving the rule, and that was because he was the candidate of the still popular ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt, and a discontented Democracy did not rally to Bryan. Now a tidal wave of votes sweeps Mr. Herbert Hoover and the Republicans out of Federal and State offices, and sweeps Mr. Franklin Roosevelt and the Democrats into power. It is the first time since before the Civil War that the Democrats have been in the majority in the nation, Vermont being the only State under undisputed Republican sway. Thirty-eight out of forty-eight States have Democratic Governors, and the State legislatures will be predominantly Democratic. Three-quarters of the House of Representatives will be Democratic and in the Senate there will be a Democratic majority of twenty-two. Out of five hundred and thirty-one votes, the electoral college cast four hundred and seventy-two for Roosevelt, and the people a majority of between six and seven millions. The bare cupboard of depression has vitalized the Democratic Party.