Ah Chain Mk. 1 Democratic Primaries 1952

Who shall take the Democratic nomination?


  • Total voters
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HueyLong

Banned
Dewey v. MacArthur

(Children giggling)
GIRL: Ring around the rosies,
(Asian-sounding radio chatter)
GIRL: A pocketful of posies.
(Air raid sirens)
GIRL: ashes, ashes.
(whistle of bombs)
GIRL: We all fall down!
(radio silence)
ANNOUNCER: These are the stakes. Vote Dewey in November.

Dewey v. Unions
The recent steel-workers strike ended with higher wages and less hours. And yet still, the union complain and bemoan our president's actions. What can a union ask for beyond a fair shake for its members?

The answer is simple. The propagation of its own power. And power for power's sake is not something any American should endorse.

Vote against power for power's sake. Vote for a fair shake. Vote Dewey in November.
 
Any Democrat is toast. I still like Kefauver for VP, but I don't know if MacArthur really is viable to lead the ticket. If not MacArthur, Harriman.
 
I concur. Didn't he pretty much ruin any chance at the presidency in 1940 with his 'democracy is finished' comments?

Yes, JPK Sr seems to have understood he had no chance at high office. Being associated with appeasment in 1938 didn't help either.
 
I voted for him for the same reason the GOP went with Dole in 1996. As a sending away present for a respected elder member of the party.
 
Kind of a process of elimination: Kennedy was long since discredited by his associations and his defeatism in 1940 (that cost him whatever chance he might have had to succeed FDR); Russell, coming from Georgia, has no chance (but I recall that when he died, it was said that had he come from Indiana, Kentucky, or Illinois, he would likely have been president); Kerr wouldn't seem too likely (Oklahoma didn't have the clout in the electoral college, and besides, it was sort-of-border south); MacArthur's ideology was far more in tune with that of the Republicans, so I can't see him changing sides; Harriman...maybe, but I'm not sure that he ever held elective office (a high appointive office to be sure, but still...) and in any event, the last Secretary of Commerce to achieve the White House was another millionaire, Herbert Hoover. You can bet someone would make sure he had that baggage, deserved or otherwise.

Kind of inclined to think about Kefauver, but in OTL it wasn't until the organized crime hearings got rolling after the '52 election that he achieved real prominence. Kerr is a not-unreasonable second choice. I'd think about a Kefauver/Harriman ticket.
 
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HueyLong

Banned
Kefauver/Fullbright vs. Dewey/Nixon sound good?

I imagine, after 1948, the Democratic would push for a silent stand on segregation- neither a Southern plank nor a progressive plank.
 
Kefauver/Fullbright vs. Dewey/Nixon sound good?

I imagine, after 1948, the Democratic would push for a silent stand on segregation- neither a Southern plank nor a progressive plank.

Looks good, though I should mention that Fulbright was a constant opponent of McCarthy in Congress, and that would certainly play a role in the election campaign.
 
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