Davis' shockingly bad performance in the north & west in 1924?

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The economy was quite solid in 1924.

Coolidge used the power of the presidency to help farmers and others in the midwest to make his primary opponent Johnson look bad.

I think this and Coolidge's energizing of allies as well as the La Follette third party run with heavy focus on the upper midwest and a big vacuum of liberal democrats doomed Davis who was the first Democratic nominee from the South.

Also, Davis was not the favorite going into the primaries. McAdoo was despite his tacit support of the KKK and oil scandal was the son in law of Woodrow Wilson. Perhaps had Wilson not died McAdoo would have gotten through what was a disastrous Democratic convention with over 100.

Davis was a conservative and anti-prohibition so he could not find much favor in the west aside from the cities with a progressive and Republican in opposition.