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Choose the Democratic Challenger to Dewey here! Who shall contest 1952 with him? Who shall have the best chance? Read here for more. There shall be a run-off if ti comes close to two or three candidates. Poll closes in three days.

Estes Kefauver Tennessee, US Senator, Liberal Democrat

Pros: Led the Kefauver Committee on corruption and organized crime, Southerner, wide appeal to much of the New Deal coalition
Cons: Anti-segregation, little love from the party bosses (unseated Senate Majority leader in 1950 due to commission's hearing to add to their dislike), little foreign policy or anti-Communist record

W. Averell Harriman New York. Secretary of Commerce under Truman, Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Conservative Democrat

Pros: Truman's own endorsement, strong foreign policy and anti-communism record
Cons: Business controversies, disliked by unions, little national prominence

Richard Russell, Jr. Georgia, Governor of Georgia, US Senator, Conservative Democrat

Pros: Southerner, led the Conservative coalition under Roosevelt, led the commission for the investigation of MacArthur's removal and blamed Dewey
Cons: Support of segregation

Robert S. Kerr Oklahoma, Governor of Oklahoma, US Senator, moderate Democrat

Pros: Possible compromise candidate (due to views and home state)
Cons: Little national prominence, no foreign policy or anti-communism record

Joseph Kennedy, Sr.
Massachusetts, Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Conservative DemocratPros: Appeal to Unions, possible Compromise candidate, leader of the Bourbon Democrats
Cons: Character issues, connections to organized crime, Catholic

Douglas MacArthur
Arkansas, General

Pros: Only candidate with an anti-Communist record to trump Dewey's, great national popularity, military experience, possible compromise candidate
Cons: Little ties to Democratic Party (He is here due to being sacked by a Republican. He held no ties before, and was suggested as Eisenhower was by some Democrats), controversy over the war, alienation of liberals
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