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Politics as Usual: Thomas Dewey, Franklin Roosevelt, and the Wartime Presidential Campaign of 1944 (Cornell UP, 2014). Divine, Robert A. Foreign policy and U.S. presidential elections, 1940-1948 (1974) online free to borrow pp 91 to 166 on 1944. Evans, Hugh E. The Hidden Campaign: FDR's Health and the 1944 Election (ME Sharpe, 2002). Friedman ...
Thomas E. Dewey (R) 99: 1944 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Dewey, blue denotes states won by Roosevelt. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. Senate elections; Overall control: Democratic hold: Seats contested: 35 of 96 seats (32 Class 1 seats + 4 special elections) [1] Net seat change ...
A poll of delegates to the 1940 convention marked Willkie as the weakest possible candidate for 1944; the delegates now favored Dewey, followed by Ohio Governor John W. Bricker. Dewey also led public polling over Willkie. [4] Members of the party made plans to prevent Willkie from winning the party's nomination in the 1944 election.
Though voters nationwide would prefer Roosevelt over Dewey, voters in Wyoming, despite the fact that they had voted for Roosevelt by 6 points just 4 years ago in 1940, choose Dewey over Roosevelt, a sign of the conservative bastion that the state would become in future elections; indeed, Wyoming has only voted for the Democratic nominee twice ...
With a nationwide Roosevelt popular vote victory margin of 7.5%, Nebraska voted 24.7% to the right of the nation, and the state would prove to be Dewey's second strongest state after Kansas. [7] Dewey's margin of victory was the most for any candidate since Roosevelt himself in 1932 and the most for a Republican since Herbert Hoover in 1928.
[3] [4] Dewey's margin was the largest against Roosevelt in any state in any of the four elections that he contested, despite carrying the state by comfortable margins in both 1932 and 1936. [5] The 104 counties (all except Wyandotte) that Roosevelt lost is the most he lost in any state during his four elections to the White House.
[2] [3] The election was close, with Detroit, Flint and most of the Upper Peninsula going to Roosevelt and most of the rest of the state going to Dewey. Michigan would not vote Democratic again until John F. Kennedy narrowly won the state in 1960. This was the only state Roosevelt flipped from the previous election.
Dewey’s running mate was Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, while Roosevelt ran with Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri. Dewey took 57.06% of the vote, to Roosevelt’s 42.93%, a margin of 14.12%. Vermont historically was a bastion of Northeastern Republicanism, and by 1944 it had gone Republican in every presidential election since the ...