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Why Truman’s 1948 upset is no template for the 2024 U.S. presidential election, according to the expert who wrote the book on polling failure
Even the leading newspaper in France ... In their respective polls, Gallup and Crossley projected Dewey’s victory by 5 percentage points. Truman carried the popular vote by 4.5 points and ...
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1948 Election
WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 1948 (UPI) --Governor Thomas E. Dewey conceded today that President Truman had been elected in the closest presidential race in 32 years. Truman with big electoral lead ...
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Dewey Gains Landslide Endorsement of Faculty
Of these, 332 were for Dewey, 84 for Truman, 20 for Wallace ... since Army and Navy authorities banned any news about politics in the Service News, the CRIMSON's wartime substitute.
The American Conservative4y
A Dewey-Beats-Truman Moment in the Offing?
That’s exactly what happened in 1948, the extraordinary upset that saw President Harry Truman win reelection against New York Governor Thomas Dewey. Few observers predicted that result at the ...
Lawrence Journal-World19y
Composite character becomes hero
One of the most seasoned and decorated lawmen in Kansas history, Alvin Dewey Jr. was forever immortalized in Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood.” In the book, Dewey, the Kansas Bureau of ...
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The 1948 Presidential Election
1948 - Truman runs against Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican nominee in the 1948 presidential election. The scientific pollsters, including George Gallup, all predicted that Dewey would beat Truman.