Tuesday, November 8, 1932 National election today. Tessie and I voted this morning at eight o'clock at the Whitneyville Fire House on Putnam St., Hamden. Franklin D. Roosevelt, democrat, was elected by a huge majority. It looks today that he would receive 472 electoral votes out of the 531 in the electoral college. He carried every state in the Union but Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and perhaps Utah. President Hoover, the republican candidate, made a heroic campaign but the economic depression plus the prohibition question was too much for him to overcome. The democrats made the most of these issues, blaming the world-wide depression (which began in October 1929) on President Hoover personally and coming out for repeal of the eighteenth amendment and national prohibition. Tessie and I went to see "Green Pastures" at the Shubert Theatre.