The Presidency of James F. Byrnes

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Thomas Dewey/ Earl Warren: 318 Electoral Votes 53% (Republican)
James Byrnes/ James Roosevelt: 184 Electoral Votes 39% (Democratic)
Henry Wallace/ Glen Taylor: 21 Electoral Votes 8% (Progressive)

so may haps a Liberal GOP and Conservative dems? just a word of advice on the next election, parties after defeats (like being voted out) tend to move to their ideological base (1964-Barry Goldwater, 1972- George McGovern, 1984-Walter Mondale, 1996-Bob Dole, post2008-GOP craziness) in the case of the Dems the base is the South, and Southernness so i'd say Harry F. Byrd, or Strom Thurmond will be run (lose more badly then James Byrnes) just my thoughts
 
so may haps a Liberal GOP and Conservative dems? just a word of advice on the next election, parties after defeats (like being voted out) tend to move to their ideological base (1964-Barry Goldwater, 1972- George McGovern, 1984-Walter Mondale, 1996-Bob Dole, post2008-GOP craziness) in the case of the Dems the base is the South, and Southernness so i'd say Harry F. Byrd, or Strom Thurmond will be run (lose more badly then James Byrnes) just my thoughts

I don't know about that BA...Since the South pretty much had there way with Jimmy, I don't think the Urban Bosses and Labor leaders will stand for a second Dixiecrat taking the nod in a row. I could easily see the more popular former Vice Presidential Nominee James Roosevelt taking down the more conservative Goodie Knight in the 1950 California Gubernatorial election, thus setting him up for a run in '52 or '56. Then we still have Harriman, Stevenson and Dever as potential candidates as well.

btw CB, Solid update on the '48 election although I think on the electoral map the Dakota should switched as Wallace pulled almost 4% IOTL North Dakota Count compared to 1% in South Dakota. Look forward to your take on the Dewey Presidency...Keep it comming:D
 
The Presidency of Thomas Dewey​
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The first test of Dewey's leadership was when the President was determined to pass a budget for the coming fiscal year. His budget was actually quite liberal. Far from the usual "balance the budget" Conservative Republican, Dewey's budget called for increased spending in Social Security, slightly less in other domestic programs, and massive spending on the Military. Dewey calls his budget "Essential, our military must be kept strong, to combat Communism," surprisingly, Senate Minority leader Alben Barkley expressed support for the Dewey budget. Not surprisingly, the leading opposition to the Dewey budget was Dewey's chief Republican Rival: Robert Taft, calling the budget: "The same nonsense I fought against for years, while the President was Roosevelt's poster boy." Despite much opposition from Southern Democrats, and Taft Republicans, the budget easily passed.
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Dewey was also a interventionist when it came to Foreign policy, the President got the United States to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO. He was also a rabid anti communist, when North Korea invaded South Korea in June, 1950, Dewey was first to denounce "Communist Agression", and declared a police action in sending over US troops to South Korea.

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South Korean Troops marching

Yet Another problem that Dewey faced was also from his own Party. Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin gained nationwide prominence when he claimed in a speech in West Virginia that he had a list of 205 known Communists working in the State Department. Although the Senator refused to turn over the list to the Dewey Administration, his speech, along with news that Mao Zedong and his Communists had taken over China, and the fact that several people such as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, had already been charged with Communist Espionage, produced a Second Red Scare in the United States, the politicians would use to their advantage. As ordered by President Dewey, both the Rosenberg's were executed June 19, 1953. The public response prompted Senate Majority Leader Kenneth Weery to call for the creation of a committee to investigate communist infiltration in the state department. The bipartisan committee was chaired by McCarthy, with Strom Thurmond (D-SC) the ranking member. Dewey was very skeptical of this committee in private,But Dewey did not wish to look "weak on Communism", so publicly Dewey supported the Committee. Dewey did take advantage of it by urging reform of the State Department.
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Since the Dewey Administration was fairly popular, and the Red Scare purging some Left- leaning Democrats, the Republicans slightly increased their majority in the Senate, but lost seats in the House of Representatives.

1950 Midterms
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Senate

Republicans: 54 (+4)
Democrats: 42 (-4)
House

Republicans: 234 (-12)
Democrats: 200 (+12)
 
Not getting entrenched in Korea is going to seriously help Dewey reelection. I assume that Dewey survived his assasination attempt by Torresola and Collazo in November of 1950 or will we see a potential President Earl Warren:cool:. If not then im torn between Averell Harriman or James Roosevelt for the President lol.
 
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