1948: Who would you have voted for?

[Nym90]

Why are so many conservatives here voting for Truman? The man who fired a general who won the Korean war for him. I love how people lambaste Bush for the Iraq war but wholeheartedly support a president who couldn't win a war we are still involved in 60 years later.

A lot of conservatives have this idea that Truman would be a Republican today. Quite laughable, really.

[Lincoln Republican]

Dewey for sure, the crime busting District Attorney and Governor of New York, who would have made a capable and competent Chief Executive.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Dewey.  Duh.

Though I do appreciate that Truman made one of the toughest, and greatest, decisions ever made by a President of the United States.

[jesmo]

Truman.

However, he was no where near as good as Eisenhower.

[MarkWarner08]

[1] Wallace
[2] Truman (my second favorite President)
[3] Dewey









[4] Thurmond

[Franzl]

Truman

[Person Man]

Dewey. I think we should have avoided a rapid escalation of the Cold War.

[go85bucks10]

Truman, by far the last great democratic president. His liberal record on economic issues was understandable right after the great depression and almost every economist in the world shouting Keynes!!! He finished the Job in WWII, fended the Russians off from Japan, successfully defended a capitalist democratic republic in Korea (no one since could even come close to that kind of success in an oversees war), integrated the military (highly constitutional), created the foreign policy and military strategy that eventually defeated the soviet union, and did it all in the face of horrible poll numbers cause he stuck to his guns. The buck stops here. When I take my own objective look, no president after Truman was as good.
    There is a reason that he was the last democratic presidential nominee that Reagan supported.