On Election Day, he showed that he had effectively coopted the populists and steamrolled the Republicans. He won by a 24 percent popular vote margin. The Democrats now utterly dominated Congress, by 76 to 16 in the Senate and 333 to 89 in the House. In his victorious inaugural address, FDR pointed to Americans still in desperate need (“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished”) and hoped most citizens would join him in pressing still further his progressive agenda.
