Posted on 03/06/2020 6:59:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
There were lots of hawkish Republicans through the years, but, except fir the 1928 election in which the Democrats nominated the Catholic Al Smith (who actually was more conservative than Hoover on some issues), the only Southern states to vote for the GOP presidential candidate in the 68 years between 1880 (the first presidential election after Reconstruction ended) and 1948 were (i) KY for McKinley in 1896, (ii) TN and OK for Harding in 1920, and (iii) KY for Coolidge in 1924 (although NC also was competitive in many such elections, giving the GOP over 45% in 6 of the 8 presidential elections between 1880 and 1908, and giving the GOP over 50% in 1916 and 1920). The states that could have given Willkie an Electoral College victory were in the NE and NW, not in the South.
Impy, why would you exclude NY from the GOP column in your “Willkie wins” map? FDR carried NY by only 3.55%, his third-lowest victory margin among the 38 states that he carried. Willkie would have gotten 266+ EVs (266 was the magic number back then because AK and HI weren’t states yet and the 23rd Anendment (giving DC 3 EVs) hadn’t even been proposed yet) had he carried (in addition to his 10 states with 82 EVs) the seven states that he lost by less than 5% (WI, IL, NY, NJ, MN, OH and MO) plus either (i) PA (which had 36 EVs and Willkie lost by 6.89%) or (ii) WY, NH, MA and CT (all but CT having given FDR smaller victory margins than did PA, with FDR’s nargin in CT being 7.14%),
The program (and book it’s based on) obviously whether being politically astute to realize it or not has a major realignment going on.
Would have made more sense to have the “Nazi-sympathizer” US President be a Huey Long type DEMOCRAT. But of course the author is a libtard and Bush was President when he wrote it. The producer falls over himself to tie to story to Trump despite that. According to libs GOP Presidents have been “evil Hitlers” at least since Nixon.
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