DBWI: U.S. Presidential Election, 1952

Who are you voting for?


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Who are you going to be voting for this year? Both parties have pulled out all of the stops this time, with two 'star' candidates in First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and General Dwight Eisenhower, which means we're probably going to have a really tight race, despite what looked like a sure-fire Republican win prior to the Democratic convention.

Whew, the Dems really did dodge the bullet when they picked Roosevelt over that egghead Stevenson, though, didn't they? I mean, I know she's a woman and all, and that might actually do some damage down South (Strom Thurmond is talking about another run of his own), but Eleanor is turning out to be quite the campaigner. I wonder if Ike can step up to the plate and take her down?
 
Who are you going to be voting for this year? Both parties have pulled out all of the stops this time, with two 'star' candidates in First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and General Dwight Eisenhower, which means we're probably going to have a really tight race, despite what looked like a sure-fire Republican win prior to the Democratic convention.

Whew, the Dems really did dodge the bullet when they picked Roosevelt over that egghead Stevenson, though, didn't they? I mean, I know she's a woman and all, and that might actually do some damage down South (Strom Thurmond is talking about another run of his own), but Eleanor is turning out to be quite the campaigner. I wonder if Ike can step up to the plate and take her down?
I like Ike.:)
 
A WOMAN in the white house! Thatll be the day. And what did she do to earn it she ran around in the 30s for her commie husband.
 
A WOMAN in the white house! Thatll be the day. And what did she do to earn it she ran around in the 30s for her commie husband.
And that set against the man who won the war in Europe.
The Democrats have had far too long in the White House, and it shows in their candidate.
 
Well, the Communist Political Association under Earl Browder is backing Madame Roosevelt, so I suppose I will too.

(OOC: The CPUSA broke with Stalin and continued the Popular Front strategy from the Depression era)
 
This is certainly an interesting race, I can't say with any certainty who I'm for.

I have no ill will towards Mrs. Roosevelt or her late husband, and she certainly seems to have her heart in the right place even if her political positions sometimes go too far for my tastes. But at the same time, her nomination screams of nepotism and succession. I don't care if Mrs. Roosvelt is a saint, she has to prove her qualifications beyond having once married Franklin Roosevelt.

Ike seems like the nice quiet moderate we need, but Nixon troubles me. The man bothers me, his speech made me think of bad used car dealers. If you have to go on television to tell everyone how honest you are, you're a crook.

I think after the years of reform, we need a return to business as usual. I think Ike can provide that, but I don't like Senator Nixon.

OCC: I'm assuming checkers still happens, and this is after that speech.
 
OoC: I already thought, that this is a sequel to my presidential election of 1948-Thread, I did a while ago. :D

OC: I'd vote for Ike. Because he is a hero, a man who stands to his words. And someone like him is needed in times like that.
 
I voted for FDR all four times, and to have his wife in the White House.... Two bad they passed the 22nd Amendment.... It'd be great to have her in the White House.

But then again, Ike is pretty good, too.... Hard to say. I'll vote for Eleanor Roosevelt, and come home and listen to the radio announcements, comfortably in my chair, because this election is going to be great, because I like both candidates - well, not Thurmond, but he isn't likely to win the presidency.......

Is he?
 
I voted for FDR all four times, and to have his wife in the White House.... Two bad they passed the 22nd Amendment.... It'd be great to have her in the White House.

But then again, Ike is pretty good, too.... Hard to say. I'll vote for Eleanor Roosevelt, and come home and listen to the radio announcements, comfortably in my chair, because this election is going to be great, because I like both candidates - well, not Thurmond, but he isn't likely to win the presidency.......

Is he?

The best Thurmond will do is pick off a few Southern states, like he did against Harry Truman four years ago. I doubt he takes enough of them to hand the election to Eisenhower, though. Eleanor's husband, of course, won the South easily in each of his bids for the Presidency, and the former First Lady remains popular down south as it is.

I can see her carrying Georgia and most of the upper south. Some polls are calling Virginia for Eisenhower, though.
 
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