How does he deal with Mississippi flooding, the economy and foreign affairs, particularly in Latin America and East Asia?
I doubt that a Great Depression would occur, because Coolidge was so popular
I also think that a Democrat would have come in 1933, but not FDR --- more of a "conservative Democrat."
part of me feels that Coolidge's Popularity would of dried up quickly after the Great Depression broke, Flush's point is well taken given that the Depression was starting under a popular second term president and not in the first months of a new President might help public confidence, if thats the case a conservative Democrat would run (and win) in 1932, both Al Smith and John Nance Garner had their eyes on it that year one of them is likely.
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I really don't think the Democrats would be stupid enough to renominate Smith, who'd lost even most of the Solid South four years earlier. Even in 1932, he never had enough support to deprive Roosevelt of the nomination, and lost strength on every ballot, whereas Garner gained on every ballot. If anything, I could see a ticket with Albert Ritchie for President and John Nance Garner for Vice President, just because of the stigma of nominating a southerner for President after the Civil War was still lingering until the fifties, at least.
Al's sill the light of the conservitive Dems, whats with your love of Ritchie? he did awful in OTL's Convention, and him and Garner together is unlikely they're two southerners (FYI Ritchie was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Virginia royalty)
Must be my reading over and over again about the convention in '32 (concerning Ritchie). He just seems like he would have emerged as a solid choice for the conservative wing of the party.
I just don't see why the Democrats would risk nominating Smith again when he had been trounced four years earlier. Maybe another conservative Democrat, other than Smith or Ritchie (I still can't see Garner getting it, to be honest), but I just can't see Smith getting it, considering how badly he did in the general election.