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by Apocryphon 1053 days ago
Then that was the fault of a lack of a challenger within the Democratic nomination. And if they really wanted to, more delegates should have voted for Harry Byrd:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_Democratic_National_Conve...

Given that Americans tend to reelect presidents during wartime, that makes the claim that FDR was somehow unpopularly "just ok" to be even more dubious.