And now for something completely different...
The 1920 US Presidential election is fast approaching and I need to start drawing up plans. Obviously, Charles Evans Hughes will be the Republican nominee. So, my question is twofold: who should the Democratic nominee be, and who should win in November 1920?
Hughes gets a second term. He hasn't done anything that would hurt his chances for reelection, and as someone said, it's actually much harder to unseat an incumbent running for a second term if the country is doing reasonably well.
That being said, here's some options for Democratic Nominees:
- James M. Cox: Governor of Ohio (1913-1915 & 1917-1920) and OTL's 1920 Democratic Nominee
- William Gibbs McAdoo Jr.: OTL & TTL Secretary of the Treasury under the Wilson Administration. Later became Senator from California IOTL.
- Al Smith: Governor of New York and OTL's 1928 Democratic Nominee
- John W. Davis: Former Solicitor General under the Wilson Administration, OTL became American Ambassador to the United Kingdom
- Robert Latham Owen: U.S. Senator from Oklahoma
- Thomas R. Marshall: Vice President under the Wilson Administration