Is there any way to get Al smith, a wet Irish catholic Democrat, elected against Herbert Hoover, who ran one of the dirtiest campaigns in american history?
Is there any way to get Al smith, a wet Irish catholic Democrat, elected against Herbert Hoover, who ran one of the dirtiest campaigns in american history?
I guess if the stock market crash happens in 1925, it's possible.
The problem is that if the Great Depression has already started by 1928, the Democrats are very unlikely to nominate Smith. The main reason he was nominated so easily in OTL is that his opponents in the party thought that the Democrats were unlikely to win that year anyway, so why not make Smith take the blame...?
The problem is that if the Great Depression has already started by 1928, the Democrats are very unlikely to nominate Smith. The main reason he was nominated so easily in OTL is that his opponents in the party thought that the Democrats were unlikely to win that year anyway, so why not make Smith take the blame...?
Didn't he nearly get nominated in 1932 until Roosevelt came along?
Maybe MacAdoo would run? We might see a "New Deal" less popular among black people in that case.Who would it be then? Another colorless compromise like in '24?
Who would it be then? Another colorless compromise like in '24?
Maybe Hoover annoys Coolidge one time too many and 'Silent Cal' speaks out publicly against his Commerce Secretary? I'm unfamiliar with the machinations of the Republican convention in 1927 so I don't know how effective such intervention would be, though Coolidge did scupper Dawes's chance for the vice-presidential slot. Thigh might be enough to have Lowden (was there really anyone else? selected as the Republican candidate.Maybe if they discovered that Herbert Hoover bought German supplies for his company during WWI? Mightn't technically be treason, as he was in Britain, but would ruin his career.