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Presidential Elections - Analysis and Discussion => Past Election What-ifs (US) => Topic started by: Jerseyrules on February 19, 2012, 02:48:27 AM



Title: Hiram Johnson 24
Post by: Jerseyrules on February 19, 2012, 02:48:27 AM
Everything is the same as OTL except Hiram Johnson is the Progressive nominee rather than La Follette.  Does he do better or worse, who does he pick for VP, etc.


Title: Re: Hiram Johnson 24
Post by: Michaelf7777777 on February 25, 2012, 04:50:20 PM
Johnson nominates La Follette  as his running mate allowing the Progressives to keep Wisconsin while Johnson brings in his home state of California as well as some Western States which were close originally in Montana, Nevada and North Dakota.


Calvin Coolidge/ Charles G. Dawes (R) - 357 EV
John W. Davis/ Charles W. Davis (D) - 136 EV
Hiram Johnson/ Robert La Follette (P) - 38 EV


Title: Re: Hiram Johnson 24
Post by: Jerseyrules on February 26, 2012, 01:31:01 AM
Johnson nominates La Follette  as his running mate allowing the Progressives to keep Wisconsin while Johnson brings in his home state of California as well as some Western States which were close originally in Montana, Nevada and North Dakota.


Calvin Coolidge/ Charles G. Dawes (R) - 357 EV
John W. Davis/ Charles W. Davis (D) - 136 EV
Hiram Johnson/ Robert La Follette (P) - 38 EV

So still definitely not enough to change the outcome?


Title: Re: Hiram Johnson 24
Post by: Michaelf7777777 on February 26, 2012, 01:38:46 AM
The only thing I could possibly think of which could enable the outcome to change with regards to a Progressive running in 1924 would be if Teddy Roosevelt survived and ran as a Progressive again.


Title: Re: Hiram Johnson 24
Post by: Jerseyrules on February 26, 2012, 01:41:43 AM
The only thing I could possibly think of which could enable the outcome to change with regards to a Progressive running in 1924 would be if Teddy Roosevelt survived and ran as a Progressive again.

Though he would probably run as a Republican, and in 1920.