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With Fall of France and the Battle of Britain, issues of foreign policy overshadowed economic concerns in 1940. The rise the Nazis left Republicans divided between isolationists and interventionists. All the party's leading figures were isolationists, but this position was ballot box poison. So the 1940 convention turned to [[Wendell Willkie]], a dark horse and Wall Street industrialist who had never run for office before. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term without difficulty.

With Fall of France and the Battle of Britain, issues of foreign policy overshadowed economic concerns in 1940. The rise the Nazis left Republicans divided between isolationists and interventionists. All the party's leading figures were isolationists, but this position was ballot box poison. So the 1940 convention turned to [[Wendell Willkie]], a dark horse and Wall Street industrialist who had never run for office before. Roosevelt won an unprecedented third term without difficulty.

The 1940 election proved to be the low point for American conservatism. The Republican Party revived the 1942 Congressional election and gained a majority in 1946.

The 1940 election proved to be the low point for American conservatism. The Republican Party revived the 1942 Congressional election. The Republican share of the popular vote increased from 41.3 percent in 1936 to 51.6 percent in 1942.<ref>Harding, John, [http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1949422?uid=3739320&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21104638616093 The 1942 Congressional Election]," ''The American Political Science Review'', 1944.</ref>

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