 Complete the following phrase:  Reporter Frederick William Wile made the oft-repeated observation that Smith was defeated by the three Ps: Prohibition, Prejudice and Prosperity. The Republican Party was still benefiting from an economic boom, as well as a failure to reapportion Congress and the electoral college following the 1920 census, which had registered a 15 percent increase in the urban population. Smiths economic conservatism and anti-prohibition stance likely contributed to his inability to coalesce support amongst rural progressives. Smiths opponent, Republican nominee Herbert Hoover, was vastly popular. Additionally, Hoover was running on the record of an immensely popular incumbent Republican president, Calvin Coolidge. Hoover benefited incredibly from the perception of Republican-led economic prosperity, which, 