FDR also got re-elected handily in 1936 with about double the unemployment rate that Obama has. At least FDR could say “it’s better than when I took office”. What will Obama run on? “I took unemployment numbers UP from when I took office”.
Because every Republican that ran against him was a squishy liberal Romney-type.
Dewey was defeated twice, once by FDR, once by the "moderate" liberal Harry Truman.
The others were defeated by FDR, the second worst communist president in the history of the USA.