1940 Election!
(20 hour election. Candidate within a party to garner most votes will accumulate all votes within party at 20th hour)
Democratic Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Age 58, President. Wants to continue government funding towards economic boosting, colonization, military building, interventionism, and trading and diplomatic power over other nations. Wants to reduce powers of corporations. Gave benefits to elderly and war veterans. Wants to fight for liberty, including against the authoritarianism of communism and fascism.
John Nance Garner, Age 72, Vice President. Anti-union, and against FDR's expansion of federal power. "Cactus Jack". Supported poll tax to prevent poor and blacks from voting. Supports a one-party system to help insure radicals never take over. Supports strengthening of corporations.
Republican Party
Wendell Willkie, Age 48, Corporate Lawyer. Liberal. Pro-corporation, internationalist. Anti-colonist. Wants to free the colonies and instead rule over by trading monopolies and espionage.
Thomas Dewey, Age 38, Attorney. Moderate. Wants to outlaw communism and fascism brought on by the new San Francisco legislature. Non-interventionist. Wants to focus on industry and welfare instead of military and colonization.
Robert Taft, Age 49, Ohio Senator. Wants to limit labor unions. Non-interventionist. Wants strong focus in United Nations. Highly honest. Highly partisan. Against all offensive wars.
Arthur H. Vandenberg, Age 55, Michigan Senator. Strong support of United Nations, but absolutely isolationist. Wants all colonies freed with trading, diplomatic, and espionage monopolies controlling them.
Herbert Hoover, Age 66, Former entrepreneur, presidential candidate, and Secretary of Commerce. Wants efficiency and carefulness in the federal government. Wants to replace child labor with volunteering. Wants to lessen corporate power. Wants to create Bureaus for American welfare, such as USDA and the Department of Food. Mentor of Robert Taft.
Third Party
Norman Thomas, Socialist, Age 60. Pacifist and Socialist activist. Marxist intellectual. Backed Declaration of Principles which would benefit workers over corporations and executive powers. Wants labor to be socialized.
Earl Browder, Communist, Age 49. Political Activist. Opposes conscription to war. Wants to use current colonization projects to resurrect the world's civilization with their native cultures. Wants to change civics towards communist. Says with communism, there will be no unemployment. Anti-fascist. Says Franklin D. Roosevelt is a dictator in the making as he continues to expand his power. Interventionist, wishing to fight for the rights of all people regardless of their creed or color. Supports the assassination of those who would undermine political progress. Supports funding of espionage to keep nations free for the people.
Votes:
Democratic Party
Roosevelt 3
Garner 0
Republican Party
Willkie 0
Dewey 0
Taft 0
Vadenberg 0
Hoover 2
Socialist
Thomas 0
Communist
Browder 7