How would you have voted? 1948 edition

[smoltchanov]

Truman

By exclusion of all other...

[RINO Tom]

Thurmond

Lol

[Biden Stans Are Cringelords]

Wallace, the greatest President we never had.

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

Thurmond

Would you mind explaining why you would have voted for a hardcore segregationist over two very qualified and reasonable major party nominees?

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

Anyway, my vote would have gone like this:


First choice: Henry Wallace, with Truman being second and Dewey not being too far behind.


I wouldn't have voted for Thurmond even if someone forced me to at gunpoint.

[S019]

Dewey

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Probably would have supported Wallace for most of the campaign but Truman.

That's the same path that George McGovern took iirc. He always thought Truman was a crook and an accidental president and enthusiastally write in favour of Wallace and deesculating the Cold War, but when he was a Wallace delegate he found the convention dominated by Stalinists and CPUSA apparatchiks which he found dogmatic and hostile, to the extent he either votes Truman or abstained entirely.

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Thurmond

Would you mind explaining why you would have voted for a hardcore segregationist over two very qualified and reasonable major party nominees?

Because jaichind thinks ethnic segregation is a good thing, because it decreases class solidarity and ensures more profit/success for right wing parties. This isn't me talking out my arse, this is his long stated reason for making political decisions.

[Orser67]

Would've voted for Truman, though I wonder how things would've been different with Dewey in office. Truman didn't get a whole lot done during his second term, and I don't see any particular reason to believe Dewey would've done anything all that different. With that in mind, I might have preferred that the GOP get saddled with the Korean War.

[Sestak]

Probably would have supported Wallace for most of the campaign but Truman.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Probably would have supported Wallace for most of the campaign but Truman.

That's the same path that George McGovern took iirc. He always thought Truman was a crook and an accidental president and enthusiastally write in favour of Wallace and deesculating the Cold War, but when he was a Wallace delegate he found the convention dominated by Stalinists and CPUSA apparatchiks which he found dogmatic and hostile, to the extent he either votes Truman or abstained entirely.

Defaulting to a very rigorous form of a belief system that's important to me, then moderating when it becomes clear that the other rigorists are dogmatic and hostile, is a frequent intellectual trajectory for me. It's happened with my Catholic beliefs and it's now happening with my socialist beliefs as well.

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

Dewey. Would of supported Taft in the primaries.