1948: Who would you have voted for?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Well, you know the drill.

[CPT MikeyMike]

If I voted in 1948: Dewey

With hindsignt: Toss-up

[Хahar 🤔]

The Communist choice.

I'm doing this in the History board, anyway.

[MasterJedi]

Harry Turman

[War on Want]

Truman but I would consider Wallace.

[bullmoose88]

Dewey.

I am not a fan of HST.

[YRABNNRM]

Dewey was a great man.

[WalterMitty]

Dewey.

I am not a fan of HST.

^^^^^

[Reaganfan]

Harry Truman

[© tweed]

Harry Truman

you support universal health care?

[NDN]

Truman, then and now. Dewey comes off as completely vapid and uninspiring.

[Colin]

Truman, I never liked Dewey very much, mostly because of his personality and generally appearence of being a cartoon character. His policies weren't bad but I don't think I could vote for him. It would be a toss-up for me at the time. This is also the last time I would seriously consider voting Democratic until 1996.

[Hash]

Truman, probably without a doubt.

[Dan the Roman]

At the time, close, but probably Truman. With hindsight, definitely Truman - one of if not the best Presidents of the 20th cent given the hand he was dealt and the resources with which he had to deal with it.

[DownWithTheLeft]

[ 1 ] Harry S. Truman
[ 2 ] Strom Thurmond
[ 3 ] George Wallace
[ 4 ] Thomas Dewey

[Boris]

[ 1 ] Harry S. Truman
[ 2 ] Strom Thurmond
[ 3 ] George Wallace
[ 4 ] Thomas Dewey

lol

[© tweed]

[ 1 ] Harry S. Truman
[ 2 ] Strom Thurmond
[ 3 ] George Wallace
[ 4 ] Thomas Dewey

lol

lmao

[DownWithTheLeft]

OMG its so funny that I despise Dewey, I voted Truman.  This is kind of like filling out the 2004 ballot as follows:

[ 1 ] John Kerry
[ 2 ] Adolf Hitler
[ 3 ] Lucifier
[ 4 ] George W. Bush

[Colin]

Uh...DWDL, they're laughing because you put down GEORGE Wallace instead of HENRY Wallace, who was the Progressive Party candidate in 1948 and FDR's former Vice President. The fact that you were voting for two segregationists, including one who wasn't even in the election, and I don't think was old enough to hold the office, along with your apparent lack of understanding of who the hell the candidates actually were was what they were laughing at.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Uh...DWDL, they're laughing because you put down GEORGE Wallace instead of HENRY Wallace, who was the Progressive Party candidate in 1948 and FDR's former Vice President. The fact that you were voting for two segregationists, including one who wasn't even in the election, and I don't think was old enough to hold the office, along with your apparent lack of understanding of who the hell the candidates actually were was what they were laughing at.

Ohhhh, That is rather funny

[Mr.Phips]

Truman. 

[Nym90]

Truman

[Lief 🗽]

Wallace, though I would have been happy with 3 of those 4 candidates. I would have left the country if 1 of those 4 candidates had somehow been elected.

[??????????]

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.

[CPT MikeyMike]

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.

Part of it is because we now know how the Cold War turned out. Truman stayed the course and in hindsight, it was best thing for the US to face the USSR in a proxy war such as Korea instead of facing them one on one in Eastern Europe. Who knows how the Cold War would have turned out if Tom Dewey was elected. Would he face off in Korea? Would he scale back the Marshall Plan? Would NATO be developed? It's hard to say but we now know that Truman made the right decision even though it took almost 50 years for most to realize that.