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Infernomole’s US elections
Here, @ETGalaxy, @Hindustani Person, have this take at a possible 1920 US presidential election in this universe - that is, if Wilson wins 1916 and America does not enter the war.

Frank O. Lowden, who was a favorite of the conservative wing of the Republicans IOTL, emerges as the frontrunner early on without Leonard Wood's presence, and Wisconsin Senator Irvine Lenroot is selected Vice President to unite the party's progressive and conservative wings. However, with Wilson being viewed largely positively as a progressive peacekeeper amidst a bloody European war (racism notwithstanding), his presidency creating a new American "normalcy" and German-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans and Irish-Americans not being turned off by Wilson's increasingly prevalent Anglophilia (though Polish-Americans do grow a bit more apathetic by 1920), the McAdoo/Baker ticket triumphs over the Lowden/Lenroot ticket, even if by a narrow margin.


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