DBWI: Nicholas Butler not compromise Republican nominee 1920

Butler was nominated in 1920 after a deadlock between the two leading figures. What if he hadn’t been nominated? The deadlock seems impossible to overcome, so a compromise pick seems inevitable. Who are some possible picks? Warren Harding from Ohio who became Butler’s Secretary of State seems possible, as another relatively moderate figure. Would a different figure thump the Democrats as soundly as Butler did, even winning 3 former Confederate states?
 
Warren Harding? Hahaha, you're kidding, right? That really would be scraping the bottom of the barrel. How about Calvin Coolidge?
 
Butler was nominated in 1920 after a deadlock between the two leading figures. What if he hadn’t been nominated? The deadlock seems impossible to overcome, so a compromise pick seems inevitable. Who are some possible picks? Warren Harding from Ohio who became Butler’s Secretary of State seems possible, as another relatively moderate figure. Would a different figure thump the Democrats as soundly as Butler did, even winning 3 former Confederate states?

It’s probably best that corrupt dickweed Harding didn’t get picked, and not just because he kicked off two years later of a “heart attack.” I mean, the crash in 1930 was bad enough, but it might have been made worse if someone as crooked as Harding ever touched the ship, let alone steered it.
 
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