The correct answer to this open question is the following.
In 1927, when US President Calvin Coolidge announced that he was not going to run for the presidency, the Republican Party had to look for a good its best man.
The candidates that ran for the United States election of 1928 were the Democrat Alfred E. Smith, who lost the election against Republican candidate Hebert E. Hoover. The final result was 447-87. During the
Historians and analysts consider that Smith's loss was due to his Catholic background as the son of a Catholic family. People thought that Catholic Curch would be immersed in the government and US citizens did appeal that idea. Most of the citizens were Protestants and had had differences with Catholics.
