The 1928 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 6, 1928, as part of the 1928 United States presidential election which was held throughout all contemporary forty-eight states. Voters chose six representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for

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and

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. Although

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had been strongly Democratic-leaning between 1896 and 1916, the nomination of Catholic

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Smith was very poorly received in the eastern part of the state, part of the

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”. The state had been all but ruled by the Ku Klux Klan for a number of years early in the decade, and the strong anti-Catholic sentiment remained outside the heavily Mexican-American south-central part of the state. Although Smith did make large gains in the Mexican-American counties, Hoover gained greatly over Calvin Coolidge in 1924 by up to 30 percent in the heavily populated

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counties and Colorado consequently became the seventh most Republican state in the nation, voting 14 percentage points more Republican than the nation at-large. Hoover’s is the best Republican presidential performance in Colorado’s history, and the second-best by any candidate behind

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in 1896 when he was overwhelmingly supported by the state’s powerful

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mining industry. Phillips, Kevin P.; ''The Emerging Republican Majority'', p. 458

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