Campaign Trail Results: Game #837323

This Game:

  • Year: 1948
  • Player Candidate: Harry Truman
  • Running Mate: Alben Barkley
  • Difficulty Level: Normal
  • Winner Take All Mode?: Yes
  • Game Played:
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View overall results, or a specific state:
CandidateElectoral VotesPopular VotesPop. Vote %
---- Thomas Dewey43925,989,63753.80
---- Harry Truman5416,532,89934.23
---- Strom Thurmond381,486,8583.08
---- Henry Wallace/Other04,297,0118.90

Visits:

  • Vermont:12

Answers:

  • A wave of strikes and economic turmoil has led to bipartisan support for a new labor law. The Taft-Hartley Act, limiting the power of labor unions, has been placed on your desk. Will you sign this bill or veto it?
    Sign it. Labor actions in the steel and coal industries nearly paralyzed our economy, and the public is fed up.
  • The Jewish state of Israel is set to declare its independence on May 15, 1948. Will your Administration recognize this new nation?
    We will not recognize Israel. There's no way we can divert resources from Europe to defend that nation, and we would be seriously jeopardizing our relations with oil-producing Arab states.
  • A young, liberal Senate candidate from Minnesota named Hubert Humphrey is pushing for a civil rights plank in the Democratic platform. You can either encourage this movement or nip it in the bud.
    I support a civil rights plank, and furthermore I will personally take executive action to desegregate the Armed Forces. I believe we can turn the black vote if we take initiative on this issue.
  • Do you stand by your decision to implement a loyalty program for employees of the federal government? Do you believe that Communist infiltration is a serious threat right now?
    I support this program, but I'm concerned with some of the actions I'm seeing from the FBI and the House Un-American Activities Committee. We need to balance this program with appropriate concern for due process and civil liberties.
  • The Soviet Union has blocked West Berlin from receiving any supplies from Western Europe. What are your thoughts on this situation?
    It's not very practical to defend West Berlin, in its isolated location, if the Soviets continue to escalate. I'd prefer to focus on building our defenses in the rest of West Germany.
  • Is there anything you can say during your acceptance speech at the national convention to shake this race up?
    I'm going to eviscerate Henry Wallace and bring the so-called Progressive Party back into the fold. I support universal health care and civil rights just the same as they do, and they are running for vanity's sake alone if they support Wallace.
  • You are making a whistle-stop tour of the country to promote your candidacy. What region will you visit over the next two weeks?
    We're going to hit the West Coast, and especially California.
  • You are calling for a pretty far-reaching platform as you campaign, but the current Congress has refused to consider many of your proposals. How will things be different in your next term if you are elected?
    When I get elected, we're going to get a Democratic Congress with me. That's how it's done.
  • You are making a whistle-stop tour of the country to promote your candidacy. What region will you visit over the next two weeks?
    We're going to hit the West Coast, and especially California.
  • You are making a whistle-stop tour of the country to promote your candidacy. What region will you visit over the next two weeks?
    We're going to hit the West Coast, and especially California.
  • You are making a whistle-stop tour of the country to promote your candidacy. What region will you visit over the next two weeks?
    We're going to hit the West Coast, and especially California.
  • Before you head to Missouri to spend the election day, is there one last place you want to hit on the campaign trail?
    Let's spend our last day in California and then fly home.
  • What are your views on the expansion of Social Security?
    I've never been comfortable with the Social Security program, and I would like to see it rolled back.
  • 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?
    I'm opposed to the provision of federal funds for primary education. It will inevitably lead to other forms of interference in what should be a state and local matter.
  • In general, what is your view on the providing of foreign aid to American allies?
    This is a drain on American finances for a cause that threatens to entangle us in future wars, not of our making. I oppose the actions we have taken.
  • 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 provocative towards the Soviet Union, and is likely to lead to further aggression and escalation from them.
  • 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?
    We need to control the spending and interference of the federal government, and reinforce our commitment to a sound American dollar. These policies will bring inflation under control in my Administration.
  • 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.
  • What do you have to say about the provision of large-scale military and economic aid to Turkey and Greece, to prevent a Communist takeover in those countries?
    I do not support this action that we have taken.
  • What are your thoughts on the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1948? Do you support federal farm programs in general?
    Maybe as a Great Depression measure, these price supports for farm products were necessary. But now, I cannot see a reason why farmers shouldn't have to make an honest living like everyone else.
  • 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.