Re-election model?

A history professor claims that Obama's re-election model is FDR. But Roosevelt was demagoguing businessmen throughout the New Deal period. I think this kind of campaign is something that Democrats just can't resist. By 1937, the New Deal was fast running out of gas, and after Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court in 1937, the Republicans took over Congress. Roosevelt's demagoguery didn't create many jobs, either.