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