Hi all,
I know this crops up on here quite a lot, but I thought this was worth discussing again. In 1916 OTL, Charles Evans Hughes defeated the then president Woodrow Wilson in one of the closest elections in history.
However, there were a number of close states and flipping just one of them would have given Wilson a second term.
So, what happens from there? Is Wilson able to keep to his pledge to stay out of the war? If Wilson does take the US into the war however (and I think that's likely by this point anyway), how effective is Woodrow as a wartime leader, compared to Hughes? How does the absence of Hughes affect the peace? What are the domestic implications of Wilson continuing in office?
Finally, what does the 1920 election look like? A lot of discussions on this subject seem to assume that TR would have lived longer without the stress of being the Sec of War and would have won the 1920 election, but to make the discussion more interesting, let's assume that Teddy still dies on Christmas day 1918 as in OTL, or around about then.
So who are the Democratic and Republican candidates?
I imagine the Democrat loses in 1920 anyway, for the same reason Hughes did in OTL?
I know this crops up on here quite a lot, but I thought this was worth discussing again. In 1916 OTL, Charles Evans Hughes defeated the then president Woodrow Wilson in one of the closest elections in history.
However, there were a number of close states and flipping just one of them would have given Wilson a second term.
So, what happens from there? Is Wilson able to keep to his pledge to stay out of the war? If Wilson does take the US into the war however (and I think that's likely by this point anyway), how effective is Woodrow as a wartime leader, compared to Hughes? How does the absence of Hughes affect the peace? What are the domestic implications of Wilson continuing in office?
Finally, what does the 1920 election look like? A lot of discussions on this subject seem to assume that TR would have lived longer without the stress of being the Sec of War and would have won the 1920 election, but to make the discussion more interesting, let's assume that Teddy still dies on Christmas day 1918 as in OTL, or around about then.
So who are the Democratic and Republican candidates?
I imagine the Democrat loses in 1920 anyway, for the same reason Hughes did in OTL?