U.S. 1948 presidential elections: Republicans divided as well?

The '48 elections were pretty interesting since it was the first big post-WWII election. The Democrats were fractured in three, but Truman still won. What if the Republicans were similarly divided? There could have been a "stop Dewey" movement.
 
FDR did have a plan to merge the Northern Republicans and Northern Democrats while ditching the Dixiecrats and Taft Republicans, who would merge. Which only means speeding up the 1968-1980 realignment of OTL. But under OTL circumstances I see no reason for a split. Ideological differences between Taftites and moderates were well within the norm for big-tent political parties.
 
The '48 elections were pretty interesting since it was the first big post-WWII election. The Democrats were fractured in three, but Truman still won. What if the Republicans were similarly divided? There could have been a "stop Dewey" movement.

maybe, Dewey is a North-east Liberal, they never really took power in the party after that, Senator Robert Taft run both in 48 and 52, Taft was the ideological father of Goldwater and Grandfather of Reagan, a spilt in the party would be between them
 
There was a stop-Dewey movement, at the convention. It flopped - Stassen, Vandenberg, and Taft couldn't unite, and simply held their delegates through two ballots while Dewey cleaned up the other candidates' delegates.

Given how badly the Democrats were doing - they got swept in the 1946 congressional elections, and Truman had awful approval ratings - there's no reason for a GOP split. Even if Taft (who was too conservative and not a particularly good campaigner) were the delegate leader going into the convention, it's far more likely that a compromise would've been reached than that any faction of the GOP would've thrown away such a great chance to win over an intraparty split.
 
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Well, I love many-faction fights. So could Stassen, Vandenberg, or Taft combined to form two anti-Dewey sides, if not three? What were their differing ideologies and stances? So let's suppose that Truman was doing better in '48, (though the Dixiecrats and uber-Progressives still bolt), and the GOP decides that they don't like Dewey's vaguely liberal, pro-interventionist stances...
 
Okay, let's put it in this way: in 1948 (and in the post-WWII period in general), what internal factions were the Republicans divided into?
 
Taftites and Northeastern internationalists, what we'd later call Rocky Republicans. They controlled the GOP until Nixon was nominated in 1960, who can't really be classified into either group. Then it was the centrists such as Nixon and Ford who predominated until the Age of Reagan began in 1976.
 
Taftites and Northeastern internationalists, what we'd later call Rocky Republicans. They controlled the GOP until Nixon was nominated in 1960, who can't really be classified into either group. Then it was the centrists such as Nixon and Ford who predominated until the Age of Reagan began in 1976.

I'd say that Ike was a centrists as well, any ways after the Progressives left the party the war between the Liberals and right wingers, the rightest have had a lot more luck over the years, the liberals at this point are dead in the water
 
Okay, let's put it in this way: in 1948 (and in the post-WWII period in general), what internal factions were the Republicans divided into?

From left to right...

The Progressives: Socially and fiscally liberal, supportive of state action in the economy. Anticommunist but against attacks on civil liberties to that end, generally isolationist, pro-civil rights, and want to expand the New Deal. Harold Stassen and Wayne Morse represent this faction the best.

The 'Eastern Establishment': Socially liberal, fiscally centrist, though with conservative and statist leanings generally. Anticommunist, interventionist, pro-civil rights, prefer the status quo on the New Deal. Thomas Dewey represents this faction the best.

Main Street Republicans: Socially centrist and fiscally centrist, with variable leanings depending on the person involved. Anticommunist, interventionist, variable on civil rights, but most supported the civil rights movement, and generally alright with the New Deal though supportive of reform. Richard Nixon represents this faction the best.

Midwestern Conservatives: Socially moderate, fiscally conservative with libertarian views on the state. Anticommunist, isolationist, pro-civil rights, and want to roll back the New Deal. Anti-labor and pro-business to a tee. This faction is best represented by Bob Taft.

Westerners: Socially conservative, fiscally conservative with libertarian views on the state. Extremely anticommunist (to the tune of the Birchers in later years), interventionist, anti-civil rights (see it as a communist plot), view the New Deal as communist or socialist in origin, see unions as communistic/socialistic, pro-big business and deregulation. This faction is best represented by Douglas MacArthur.
 
Hmm, so was the GOP ever in danger of having any of those factions breaking off at the time? And I mean breaking off as its own entity, not joining the Democrats.
 
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