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Correction[edit]

This article said that this was the first election when "either of the major party candidates was born in the 20th century." In addition to not being true (Roosevelt was born in 1882) it was an awkward phrase, so I removed it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qwcasd (talk • contribs) 05:25, 3 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Why didn't you just edit it? "Either" means one of the two people. And it's the first time one of the candidates (in this case, Dewey) was born in the 20th century. --Richjenkins (talk) 03:39, 8 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Section nominations[edit]

Why is the Republican Party listet above the Democratic Party in this section? The incumbent and winning candidate was a Democrat, and D is before R in alphabet. --89.12.39.91 (talk) 20:10, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. Correction made.--JayJasper (talk) 20:56, 13 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Election Map?[edit]

The popular vote map by county does not appear to match up with the electoral map by state. The article should clarify this somehow. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.205.229.54 (talk) 07:22, 20 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Henry A. Wallace[edit]

In reference to Wallace’s decline in popularity as the Vice Presidential choice for the Democratic Party nomination, the article states that “He had performed so poorly as economic coordinator that Roosevelt had to remove him from that post”.

This is largely misleading. Is the sentence referring to Wallace’s performance as a wartime VP chairing the BEW (among other positions)? If so, is the poor performance referring to the effectiveness of the BEW in securing wartime resources (which can be debated) or the effectiveness of securing more autonomy for the BEW (taking away responsibility from Cordell Hull and Jesse Jones’ departments)?

My take is that his decline in popularity had nothing to do with the lack of effectiveness of the BEW (I think it was largely effective) and that this line should be removed. Another option would be to revise the line to refer to Wallace’s unsuccessful political maneuvering to secure his activist wartime agenda for the BEW.

Thoughts? Patkearon7 (talk) 01:34, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Image vote[edit]

Its Obvious in this case color is so much better

Photo 1
Photo 2

73.194.5.107 (talk) 17:37, 22 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I cast my vote for the currently used B&W images, as colored images are not always the better choice than B&W Images. This is where B&W images are the better choice as there has to be some point where colored images for politicians become mainstream, hence it becoming mainstream in the 1960s and all elections prior to 1964 using B&W images, while elections in 1964 and after using colored images for the info box. HistorianL (talk) 22:42, 29 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

B&W, they look terrible. And Dewey looks like a Nazi. Qutlooker (talk) 03:15, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

B&W. The photo you’re using for FDR just makes him look awful. Also, this is five elections before the next one which uses color photos. We ideally want things to be consistent with any election that uses one given format of photos being either immediately preceded or followed by an election that uses the same format, and there is no reason to introduce inconsistency here. YeetusDeletusYT (talk) 05:42, 31 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Since it has been almost three weeks since the start of the vote, this vote has now concluded, with B&W winning 3-1. I also believe that we should add the discussion closed template, since the vote has concluded ~ HistorianL (talk) 00:15, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]