Re elect Truman 1952?

What would be needed for Truman to be renonminated and re-elected

  • no Korean war

    Votes: 1 5.0%
  • a clear victory in Korea

    Votes: 10 50.0%
  • no Soviet bomb

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Nationalists holding out in China

    Votes: 3 15.0%
  • Some different economic events

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • All of the above (exept victory in Korea no North Korea)

    Votes: 5 25.0%
  • something else

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • more extreme republcian

    Votes: 1 5.0%

  • Total voters
    20
  • Poll closed .
What would it take go get him to fight for the nomination and win?

I am putting some suggestions in a poll.

How likely is it that if this happened we would have Eisenhower in office 1957-65?

How would Truman have handled Civil rights issues?

How would Eisenhower have handled Cuba and Vietnam
 
Won in Far East, Either Korea or China, both for the best...but fear what my family and family friends will fare in korea(they were the Colombian Batallion) but maybe we would get the mcarthur idea of a blitz to pyoang...
 
The biggest event would be the KMT winning in China, which probably requires a POD that gives them enough help to put them over the top. This probably also makes Korea completely winnable, so Harry "Commie Stopper" Truman, with a solid record of containment, at least has a good shot at re-election in 1952.

What would lock it up for Truman is a stronger economy and a way to maintain at least a strong measure of the WWII boom. A lot of people feared that the economy would go back to Depression-era weakness, and if Truman could prevent that long-term, he could be President as long as he wanted. It might even avert the 22nd Amendment.
 
Some of these require quite early POD's. I don't think anything requiring a POD before Truman's *1948* election should count, and both the Soviet a-bomb and the Communist victory in China were inevitable well before that point IMO.

If the Korean War could be avoided (and in OTL Stalin only gave Kim Il Sung a green light reluctantly after first turning him down several times) it is possible that Eisenhower will decide not to run in 1952 (the world situation is less tense, and Ike is less convinced that the country urgently needs him). This would make Taft the most likely GOP candidate. Fearing that a Taft presidency would be disastrous for the country, Truman might decide to run again, and without the burden of Korea could conceivably defeat Taft. True, there would still be the issues of corruption and communism in government and of the "loss" of China, but against that, one must consider that Taft does not have Ike's great personal popularity, and that there are widespread fears that he will scrap the entire New Deal and take the country back to isolationism (though Taft's real views on both domestic and foreign issues were considerably more complex).
 
How likely is it that if this happened we would have Eisenhower in office 1957-65?
Not very. Eisenhower was pretty old at this point (there was even speculation that he wouldn't run for reelection in 1956) and the main reason he ran in 1952 in the first place was so that a conservative isolationist like Taft wouldn't win.
 
First I think you need a clear win in Korea to offset China (unless you delay China but that is tough while Korea win could work if China is still to disorganized to intervene).

Then the GOP nominates Taft instead of Ike and he runs a poor campaign
 
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