Campaign Trail Results: Game #749876

This Game:

  • Year: 1948
  • Player Candidate: Thomas Dewey
  • Running Mate: Arthur Vandenberg
  • Difficulty Level: Normal
  • Winner Take All Mode?: Yes
  • Game Played:
  • JackGoodenough
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View overall results, or a specific state:
CandidateElectoral VotesPopular VotesPop. Vote %
---- Harry Truman29524,593,89650.06
---- Thomas Dewey19821,650,86344.07
---- Strom Thurmond381,307,1032.66
---- Henry Wallace/Other01,572,6243.20

Visits:

  • New York:5
  • California:4
  • Massachusetts:3

Answers:

  • A wave of strikes and economic turmoil has led to bipartisan support for a new labor law. Do you support Truman's decision to veto the Taft-Hartley Act?
    Absolutely not. This is a perfectly reasonable measure, designed to prevent a strike in one industry from crippling the American economy.
  • The Jewish state of Israel is set to declare its independence on May 15, 1948. Do you support Truman's decision to recognize this new nation?
    I've supported the Israeli state from the beginning. I'm glad that Truman came around, but he absolutely sent the wrong message by vacillating on this issue until the very last moment.
  • To what extent will you emphasize your support for civil rights legislation in New York as you hit the campaign trail?
    Not only will I speak about this issue, but I will use it to attack Truman. I've supported civil rights all along, while Truman seems to have come around at the 11th hour, and for transparent political gain.
  • To what extent are you prepared to make anti-Communism an issue in this campaign, or to attack Harry Truman on the issue?
    I think there are legitimate questions to be asked about how much the Communists have embedded themselves into departments of the government. I support the measures we have in place to combat this.
  • Do you have any comments to make on the Soviet blockade of Berlin, and the airlift in progress to resupply that city?
    We need to pull back from West Berlin and maintain a more realistic defense perimeter. We're more likely to be drawn into World War III than to gain anything useful from the defense of that exclave.
  • What will be the main focus of your acceptance speech at the Republican Convention?
    I will talk about what I have accomplished in New York -- public works, a balanced budget, anti-discrimination laws, business creation, and funding for teachers and universities. This is the future of our party.
  • You are making a whistle-stop tour of the country to promote your candidacy. What region will you visit over the next two weeks?
    I'm going through the Plains and Mountain states. I could personally talk to a third of the voters in that region, as sparsely populated as it is.
  • Your party has passed a fairly ambitious and liberal platform which you have supported. However, if the Republican Congress won't pass these laws now, how do you expect to push them forward as President?
    What Truman really means when he calls this the "Do-Nothing" Congress is that they won't pass a program for national health insurance or the drastic expansion of Social Security. I will attack Truman for calling a pointless session for his own political purposes.
  • You are making a whistle-stop tour of the country to promote your candidacy. What region will you visit over the next two weeks?
    I'm going through the Plains and Mountain states. I could personally talk to a third of the voters in that region, as sparsely populated as it is.
  • You are making a whistle-stop tour of the country to promote your candidacy. What region will you visit over the next two weeks?
    I'm going through the Plains and Mountain states. I could personally talk to a third of the voters in that region, as sparsely populated as it is.
  • You are making a whistle-stop tour of the country to promote your candidacy. What region will you visit over the next two weeks?
    I'm going through the Plains and Mountain states. I could personally talk to a third of the voters in that region, as sparsely populated as it is.
  • Before you head to New York to spend the election day, is there one last place you want to hit on the campaign trail?
    I'll spend the last day in California with my running mate, and then fly back to New York.
  • What are your views on the expansion of Social Security?
    I support the expansion of benefits, which were set at fairly low levels during the 1930s and have been eaten up by our recent inflation.
  • Would you support an act that would allocate federal funds for the construction of low-income housing?
    I'm not comfortable with committing the federal government to the area of home construction, especially with all of the other responsibilities it has taken on over the past two decades.
  • What are your views on a federal health insurance program?
    We should not have the federal government involving itself in the health care business. Private enterprise has built an outstanding health care system and will continue to do so in the future.
  • Do you support the federal funding of primary education, and if so, in what form?
    This is something that we will research and consider seriously over the next four years. I'd have to see the details of any proposal before I could give my opinion.
  • In general, what is your view on the providing of foreign aid to American allies?
    I support this kind of thing in limited cases where there is a clear threat. But I'm worried about some of the ill-defined, open ended commitments we are getting ourselves into with other countries, and with the United Nations.
  • What do you think about the proposed Constitutional Amendment to limit the President to two terms in office?
    I support this Amendment as a necessary step towards the political health of this nation. We need to, periodically, have a fresh point of view in government. Ours is not an imperial nation.
  • What are your views, in general, on the Marshall Plan?
    The Marshall Plan is a waste of resources, and will slow the development of Europe by forcing nations to rely on foreign subsidies, rather than rebuilding their own economies.
  • Is the House Un-American Activities Committee going too far in its attempts to root out Communist influence, or should it be doing more?
    I'm not very comfortable with the activities of this committee, and I believe they should be scaled back to a minimum.
  • How will you reduce the inflation rate, currently around 10% annually, if you are elected President?
    Corporations have been raising prices much faster than wages have increased, and they are pocketing exorbitant profits as a result. I will fight for the rights of labor, and for better regulation during my next term.
  • What will you do to help resolve the severe housing shortage in this country?
    It has taken a couple of years after the end of the war, but I can already see that many new houses are being built by private developers to resolve this shortage, and I can only predict that this trend will continue without any special action by the government.
  • Do you advocate the international control of nuclear weapons under the United Nations?
    I think this is a necessary expedient which we should implement immediately. It is important to set a precedent now, before other countries develop the bomb, that nuclear war will never again become state policy.
  • A number of Congressional candidates have made anti-Communism and accusations of Communist sympathies a centerpiece of their political campaigns. Do you support this trend?
    You know, in a few isolated cases, we do have people in this country who are too sympathetic towards Communism to hold public office, in my opinion. But we shouldn't let such accusations get out of hand.
  • What do you have to say about your announced running mate, Arthur Vandenberg?
    Arthur Vandenberg is a great man who represents my views for the future of this country. Now let's get going with this campaign.