gorkay
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« on: November 06, 2007, 05:34:36 PM » |
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There sure is a lot of interest in 1948 on the boards. We've got a Truman-Stassen timeline, my own Taft-Wallace one, and now this Wallace-Dewey one.
A lot would have depended on how Wallace did in office from '45 to '48. It's true that he wound up pretty far to the left by '48 (at least by American political standards) IRL, but that might not have happened if he had been President. The need to try to govern effectively usually drives Presidents toward the center politically, and as I speculated in my own timeline, this might have happened to Wallace too. That he might have had such proclivities is verified by the fact that IRL, he had moved back toward the middle by '52 and in fact was by then very much anti-Soviet. So if he had been able to establish a record as a mainstream, new Deal-type liberal (as Truman did), he might have had a shot at winning in '48.
In your scenario the conservatives wouldn't have had much of a choice, unless they wanted to go for Thurmond.
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