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.
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.
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.
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?