The [[American Labor Party]] provided the necessary votes to overcome the [[Republican]] lead over the [[Democrat]]s. By 1944 the [[Communist]]s had taken over the American Labor Party completely. In the election of 1944, [[Republican]] Presidential nominee [[Thomas E. Dewey]] got nearly half a million votes more on the Republican ticket than Roosevelt got on the Democratic ticket,<ref>[http://www.therealitycheck.org/GuestColumnist/tbrewton010306.htm The (Socialist) Empire Strikes],
by Thomas E. Brewton, ''The RealityCheck.org''. Retrieved August 1, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,801534,00.html?promoid=googlep The Side Issues], [[Time magazine]], Nov. 13, 1944.</ref> but Roosevelt was the candidate of two other parties - the American Labor Party of the Communists <ref>''The Roosevelt Myth'', John T. Flynn, Fox and Wilkes, 1948, Book 3, Ch. 10, [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20040626062741/https://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Ten___Politics__Disease_.htm ''Politics, Disease and History'']</ref> and the [[Liberal Party]] which consisted of technocrats, [[economic planners]] and American non-Stalinist Communists.<ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 2, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/cgi-bin/framed/2767/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Two___The_White_House_G.htm ''The White House Goes into Business''], Flynn, 1948.</ref> In New York State Roosevelt won 47 electoral votes with a majority of 317,000.<ref>''Roosevelt Myth'', Book 3, Ch. 9, [http://www.rooseveltmyth.com/book/fdrmyth_Chapter_Nine___The_Great_Confere.htm ''The Great Conferences''], Flynn, 1948,</ref> Of these 825,000 votes came from the American Labor Party dominated by the Communists, which had also nominated FDR and he had accepted, and the American Liberal Party. The same thing was true in Illinois, in New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and other large industrial states, although the fact was not so obvious because the radicals operated inside the Democratic party where they could not be so easily identified. [[Strom Thurmond]] also supported FDR's decision to seek a fourth term.<ref>[http://www.kevinbaker.info/c_wtm.html What Trent Meant], Kevin Baker.</ref>
==Democratic Party Nomination==