Adlai Stevenson drops dead as he's about to give his acceptance speech at the 1952 Democratic convention. Eleanor Roosevelt agrees to run with Sam Rayburn as her running mate. Could they have beat Ike/Nixon?
Adlai Stevenson drops dead as he's about to give his acceptance speech at the 1952 Democratic convention. Eleanor Roosevelt agrees to run with Sam Rayburn as her running mate. Could they have beat Ike/Nixon?
She always said the country wasn't ready for a woman President and declined to run. But I think she was interested if she thought the country was ready.
Except that Eleanor would (a) likely get more party support from the party of her husband, and (b) the reason Ike chose the Republicans over the Democrats was because the Democrats were against his own policy views in regards to Europe and the Soviets and were arguing against policies he had already advocated/made as Supreme Commander.If she were to have been nominated, was this before Ike made his final decision about whether or not to run? I know that he could have really run for either party, so how about a Democratic ticket with Ike and Eleanor? We won the war, now we'll win the peace.
i think if they thought they could win, they'd run a man. i don't really know why Eleanor would go for it; take one for the party? make history as first woman to run of president?A bit fuzzy, but seems like it could work, with a bit of modification. For example, I'm not sure they would say, "well, we're going to lose anyway, so lets just run Eleanor." I don't think she'd go for that either.