A Different America
Campaign scores
Truman: 69 +5 +5 = 79
Warren: 81 +3 +2 = 86
Thurmond: 53 +3 = 56
Wallace: 78 +10 = 88
Turnout scores
Truman turnout: 45
Warren turnout: 59
Thurmond turnout: 74
Wallace turnout: 92
X factor scores
Truman: 43
Warren: 51
Thurmond: 46
Wallace: 70
House Democrats: 89
House Republicans: 100
House Democrat turnout: 33
House Republican turnout: 75
Senate Democrats: 34
Senate Republicans: 44
Senate Democrat turnout: 53
Senate Republican turnout: 58
Democratic Governor: 57
Republican Governors: 42
Democratic Governor Turnout: 89
Republican Governor Turnout: 25
Initiatives:
Gerald O’Connor (Entropy in Action): 83 (+3)=88 +3 points
William Anderson (ForumLurker): 18 (+5)=23 +2 points
Thomas Kenway (GoTFan): 44 (+5)=49 +2 points
Anton Jepsen (Elcapsar): 13 (+10)=23 +5 points
Will Angler (KaiserDave): 54 (+5)=59 +3 points
Marcus A. Jackson II(New Tennessean Politician): 75 (+3)=78 +3 points
Michael Feinburg (Asenath White): 69 (+5)=74 +3 points
October Surprise 1-100 1-31 Warren Scandal Truman Scandal 32-62 63-100 No Scandal: 13 (Warren scandal)
Keys to the White House:
As you know if 5 or more of these are false then the incumbent President is predicted to lose the popular vote!
Bold: True
Nonbold: False
1. Party Mandate: After the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of Representatives than after the previous midterm elections. 2. Contest: There is no serious contest for the incumbent party nomination. 3. Incumbency: The incumbent party candidate is the sitting president. 4. Third-party: There is no significant third party or independent campaign.
5. Short term economy: The economy is not in recession during the election campaign.
6. Long term economy: Real per capita economic growth during the term equals or exceeds mean growth during the previous two terms.
7. Policy change: The incumbent administration effects major changes in national policy.8. Social unrest: There is no sustained social unrest during the term.
9. Scandal: The incumbent administration is untainted by major scandal.10. Foreign/military failure: The incumbent administration suffers no major failure in foreign or military affairs.11. Foreign/military success: The incumbent administration achieves a major success in foreign or military affairs.12. Incumbent charisma: The incumbent party candidate is charismatic or a national hero. This Key cannot be altered through player point expenditures
13. Challenger charisma: The challenging party candidate is not charismatic or a national hero. This Key cannot be altered through player point expenditures
The 1948 Presidential Election
When the sprint towards the finish began things turned from bad to worse against President Truman, already having lost the support of the Governors and delegations from South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama the Democratic party of Georgia declared their support for South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond. Another worrying development for President Truman was the explosive strength of Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace’s campaign, he had gained considerable support in key states such as Iowa, New York, and California.
As the campaign continued, Truman met a young Irish-American named
Gerald O’Connor who had helped organize a stop on Truman’s whistlestop tour. O’Connor also made efforts to ingratiate himself among the immigrant communities, for the most part, his efforts were successful, he made valuable contacts among the Scottish, Italian, and Polish American communities and expanded his relationship with many in the Irish American community one of the local Chicago Congressmen who planned to retire in 1950 offered his support to O’Connor in the next election as did local Chicago Labor chapters.
In Texas
William Anderson who campaigned heavily for Warren was pelted with rocks by some local farmers and was refused service by local restaurants, his work among the college Republicans at Baylor was slightly more successful, as he made friends with a few more moderate members of the society, but the President of the Baylor College Republicans Buck Heisenberg was not a fan of Mr.Anderson, Masterson was the scion of an old German-American ranching family his goons attempted to make Anderson a persona non grata at Baylor, but with the help of his friends Anderson managed to keep himself as a more fringe member of the College Republicans.
Thomas Kenway had a mix of success and failure during his campaigning for Harry, he did succeed in drawing some Republicans to President Truman, but he failed in attempting to lure away any supporters of Wallace who’s focus on the former supporters of Farmer-Labor in Iowa drew him strong support in the state. Kenway’s new organization Veteran’s for a Better America did draw some supporters across the nation, but it remains a localized organization to the Democrats near the University of Iowa, struggling to draw much support from non-politicals and Republicans.
Anton Jepsen was one of the key members of the Wallace campaign in the state, and he was named as the Minnesota Co-Chairman of the Progressive Party, he even was able to meet with Vice President Wallace during one of his trips to the state. Jepsen expertly led Wallace’s campaign in the state and his plan to focus on the former supporters of the Farmer-Labor party worked quite well, but there were problems at the University front where Jepsen was called to attend to the HUAC community days before the election which put his position at the University in jeopardy and many believe it was due to his connections with the Wallace campaign and leftist causes.
Will Angler’s campaign for reelection to the Vermont State legislature was easily reelected with his Democratic opponent being a local small farmer who barely campaigned for the seat. He was re-elected with over 75% of the vote and when he returned to the Capital the members of the Republican caucus asked Angler if he wished to be named the Republican whip of the chamber, which was helped by his popularity among the chamber, but he was also in line to be the Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations in the chamber and he would have to choose between the two.
Marcus Jackson was easily elected to the seat in Florida-3 district without even a Republican opponent, he has also become friends with one of Florida’s Senators Claude Pepper, who while not being an ideological ally of Jackson took a liking to the younger man, it is up to Jackson whether he wishes to keep this friendship with Pepper who is up for reelection in 1950 or to ally himself with other State Democrats who may not be as friendly to the Freshman Congressman.
Michael Feinburg’s assignment to Chicago was quite run of the mill just a group of Anarchists describing their dreams for the downfall of the American government, but there was something of interest there was a man who sat in the back of their meetings and left right after, could he be another g-man sent by Hoover to watch Feinburg by Hoover, or was he an Anarchist with something to hide it would be up to Feinburg to decide what to do about this man.
Election Night: 1948
On election night President Truman and Governor Warren faced off, but Vice President Wallace had an incredible turnout and even though the polls had shown narrowing polls in the final days, it seemed that Governor Warren was going to pull off the victory with a final push led by Governor Dewey in the final days in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, along with a final stop in Iowa with both men before Dewey headed to New York and Warren to Sacramento. Truman and Barkley made similar stops and coupled with a scandal regarding Warren’s leadership during World War 2 these narrowed the pre-election polls.
When election night came, Warren would win a victory of 281 electoral votes to 197 for President Truman and 53 for South Carolina Governor Strom Thurmond. In the popular vote, Warren would win with 46.7% to Truman’s 44.5% with 3.5% of the vote going to Strom Thurmond and 5.3% for Former Vice President Henry A. Wallace. The electoral map looked like this:
In the Senate Republican Senators John Sherman Cooper, George Wilson, Charles brooks, Henry Dworshak were able to retain their seats while Democratic incumbent Senator J. Allen Frear lost to his Republican opponent, the Democrats still regained their majority in the Senate.
However in the House, the Republicans lost 13 seats, but this left them with 233 seats which are 15 more than the needed 218 for a majority. In the gubernatorial elections, the Democrats gained 5 governorships, while narrowly holding onto the governorship in Washington and Utah.
The End!
I hope you guys enjoyed this first turn, hopefully, the first of many I will be putting up President Warren’s first term on Monday including the midterm elections, so be prepared for that if anyone has any questions please ask and I would like to thank everyone for playing!
