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minionofmidas
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« on: May 30, 2005, 02:02:33 PM »
Truman didn't face a Primary challenge as far as I know*, since the primaries were nowhere near as important then as they are now, and indeed appeared to be on their way out, but he was certainly unpopular with large parts of the party base, as viz. Thurmond's and Wallace's candidacies. He was reelected anyways.
I'm not sure if Hoover, the last defeated president before 1976, faced any opposition within the party in 1932.

*except in Alabama. Alabama held primaries for electors, and the Democratic electors primary was won by a slate pledged to Strom Thurmond. As a result, Truman was not on the ballot in Alabama.
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #1 on: May 31, 2005, 04:04:54 PM »
By whom? How successful was that challenge?
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minionofmidas
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« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2005, 04:11:39 PM »
That's basically not a challenge.
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