1944: Henry Wallace vs. Thomas Dewey

[Bo]

FDR has a stroke in 1942 and dies. Henry Wallace becomes the new President and essentially continues FDR's war plans (without making much changes). The war largely goes on as in RL. Also, the economy dramatically recovers due to the massive war production and war effort. The Republicans nominate Thomas Dewey to run against him in 1944. Wallace runs as a wartime President and adopts Lincoln's slogan of "don't change horses in the middle of a stream." Dewey attacks' Wallace's radical views and his Dear Guru letters are discovered and publicized. You pick the VPs. Everything else stays the same. Discuss, with maps.

[#CriminalizeSobriety]

I'll post a map tonight after work, but it would be a complete bloodbath for Wallace. Dewey wins in a walk.

Third party candidates or no?

[Bo]

I'll post a map tonight after work, but it would be a complete bloodbath for Wallace. Dewey wins in a walk.

Third party candidates or no?

No third party candidates. BTW, don't you think many people would support Wallace despite personally disliking him due to him being a wartime President?

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Thomas Dewey/ John Bricker 58% 435 electoral votes
Henry Wallace/Glen Taylor 27% 0 electoral votes
Unpledged Electors 15% 96 electoral votes

[Lincoln Republican]

Dewey picks Ohio Governor John Bricker for Vice President.

Wallace picks Senator Millard Tydings from the border state of Maryland for Vice President.

This assumes the solid south stays loyal to the Democrats.  With no third party candidate, this is a reasonable assumption.

Wallace does not prevail in 1944, in spite of the fact World War II rages on.  The country would simply not accept him as President.

Dewey/Bricker              374
Wallace/Tydings           157  

The British voters turfed Winston Churchill in 1945 before the end of World War II, so there is no reason to believe that the U.S. voters would not turf Wallace in 1944.

Churchill lost the election in 1945 after the defeat of Germany, but before the surrender of Japan, so World War II was still on.

[Obnoxiously Slutty Girly Girl]

Dewey picks Ohio Governor John Bricker for Vice President.

Wallace picks Senator Millard Tydings from the border state of Maryland for Vice President.

This assumes the solid south stays loyal to the Democrats.  With no third party candidate, this is a reasonable assumption.

Wallace does not prevail in 1944, in spite of the fact World War II rages on.  The country would simply not accept him as President.

Dewey/Bricker              374
Wallace/Tydings           157  

The British voters turfed Winston Churchill in 1945 before the end of World War II, so there is no reason to believe that the U.S. voters would not turf Wallace in 1944.

Churchill lost the election in 1945 after the defeat of Germany, but before the surrender of Japan, so World War II was still on.

Wallace would never win the South.

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