Harding lives

[A18]

To see election day, 1924. Who wins, and what's a map look like?

[Erc]

Harding would have survived as the old kindly grandfatherly guy who didn't know what was going on in his administration--a lot like Grant or Reagan, one could say.

Plus there's no way John W. Davis could have won that (as live TV was not yet invented on which Warren G. Harding could eat live babies).

[Joe Republic]

Did the stories about Harding's corruption and extramarital affairs come out during his administration or after it?

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Did the stories about Harding's corruption and extramarital affairs come out during his administration or after it?

After he died.

[PBrunsel]

All depends on three things:

1. Does Tea Pot Dome and the other scandals break? Can Harding cover them up long enough to conti ue?

2. Does his health play a part? Would looking sick, as he did in 1923, effect people wanting to vote for him?

3. Who does he replace Coolidge with? He was going to drop Silent Cal from the ticket. "The little fellow" (as Warren called Coolidge) was not interested in another term and harding was not interested in another Veep Cal. If it is a national hero like Charles Evans Hughes or Herbert Hoover, his chances go up. A man of great integrity, like Senator William Borah, than Harding's chances go up.

[A18]

Good thing he died.

[PBrunsel]

Good thing he died.

It saved him humiliation. He would not have lost in 1924, the Democrats were too disfunctional, but it could have been close.

Perhaps LaFollete would have been a real spoiler for Harding.

[A18]

I meant so Coolidge got to be president. Harding was a scumbag; I don't care about him. He deserved to lose in a landslide.