1948 Presidential Election Voting Booth. Please vote.

[Lincoln Republican]

Please vote and discuss if you like.

Truman/Barkley            Democratic
Dewey/Warren              Republican
Thurmond/Wright          States' Rights Democratic
Wallace/Taylor              Progressive/American Labor
Thomas/Smith              Socialist
Watson/Learn               Prohibition                          

[anthonyjg]

Easy Wallace vote here

[JA]

Easily Thomas E. Dewey. That man really should've been one of our Presidents.

[The_Doctor]

Thomas E. Dewey [R-NY]

[Mr. Smith]

Truman.

Let Harry give 'em hell!

[Intell]

Wallace, Progressivism, Raical Equality and Peace.

Thomas would be 2nd.

[Kingpoleon]

Dewey. Wallace has legitimately semi-disturbing ties to communists, Thomas was far too much of a pacifist, and Truman was not a good person in terms of manner, alongside pretty extreme economic views.

[Goldwater]

[1] Dewey
[2] Truman
[3] Screw the rest of them

[President Johnson]

I vote enthusiastically for this guy:

[Sir Mohamed]

I both like Truman and Wallace, but voted Truman because he had the better leadership skills in my opinion and deserved to win a term of his own.

[Lechasseur]

Harry Truman

[The Govanah Jake]

Would of voted Wallace but seeing that New York was a swing state I would vote for Truman and I wouldn't see myself have any trouble in doing so since I liked his him too.

[darklordoftech]

What was the difference between Truman and Dewey besides whether they had an R or a D next to their name?

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

Dewey

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Michigan's native son, Dewey!

[Lincoln Republican]

Dewey.

I believe a Dewey/Warren administration would have given the U.S. solid, competent leadership.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

What was the difference between Truman and Dewey besides whether they had an R or a D next to their name?

At the time and in retrospect, Dewey was considered a leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, but he was still very much a Republican and the more conservative of the major party candidates; he campaigned against the New Deal in 1944, and while his 1948 campaign was intentionally devoid of substance, he made a point of portraying Truman as "soft on Communism" and suggested a Dewey Administration would take a harder line on Communists in the government. Truman was in essence running for the fifth FDR term: he campaigned on universal healthcare, farm relief, opposition to the Taft-Hartley Act and other conservative measures passed by the "Do-Nothing" 80th Congress, and a host of liberal economic reforms.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What was the difference between Truman and Dewey besides whether they had an R or a D next to their name?

At the time and in retrospect, Dewey was considered a leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, but he was still very much a Republican and the more conservative of the major party candidates; he campaigned against the New Deal in 1944, and while his 1948 campaign was intentionally devoid of substance, he made a point of portraying Truman as "soft on Communism" and suggested a Dewey Administration would take a harder line on Communists in the government. Truman was in essence running for the fifth FDR term: he campaigned on universal healthcare, farm relief, opposition to the Taft-Hartley Act and other conservative measures passed by the "Do-Nothing" 80th Congress, and a host of liberal economic reforms.

Of course the 80th Congress was nothing of the sort, but why let a little thing like truth get in the way of a good left-populist crusade!

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

What was the difference between Truman and Dewey besides whether they had an R or a D next to their name?

At the time and in retrospect, Dewey was considered a leader of the liberal wing of the Republican Party, but he was still very much a Republican and the more conservative of the major party candidates; he campaigned against the New Deal in 1944, and while his 1948 campaign was intentionally devoid of substance, he made a point of portraying Truman as "soft on Communism" and suggested a Dewey Administration would take a harder line on Communists in the government. Truman was in essence running for the fifth FDR term: he campaigned on universal healthcare, farm relief, opposition to the Taft-Hartley Act and other conservative measures passed by the "Do-Nothing" 80th Congress, and a host of liberal economic reforms.

Of course the 80th Congress was nothing of the sort, but why let a little thing like truth get in the way of a good left-populist crusade!

I always understood the term to refer to Congress "doing nothing" to implement Truman's domestic agenda. Of course, Dewey more than made up for any creative liberties on Truman's part by being fastidiously uncreative in his own speeches.