Paul V McNutt
Banned
I was thinking if Hoover was president from 1921 - 1929, he wouldn't be blamed for the depression.
I was thinking if Hoover was president from 1921 - 1929, he wouldn't be blamed for the depression.
I think we should go on to a second ballot, to give this a more 'Convention'-y feel. The next poll should eliminate those with zero votes (Sproul, Butler, Pritchard, Poindexter, Sutherland) and those with under 10% of the vote (Lowden, Harding).
Actually, my thinking was if we did a second ballot, it would be more of a runoff style, where the minimum number of candidates who add up to 50% of the vote -- in this case Robert LaFollete, Calvin Coolidge, and Leonard Wood -- would be on the ballot.
I'm not so sure. Harding and Coolidge's policies were essentially what helped spur on the depression itself. If Hoover is in the same position as they were IOTL and he pursued the same laissez-faire policies (which is extremely likely), he's still going to shoulder a hefty bit of the blame as his conservative colleagues did IOTL.
I feel the same way, at least on domestic policies. I feel like there is still strong potential for the US under Wood to join the LoN, even if it has to wait for HCL's death. HCL was a Wood fan, supporting him over Pershing.