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.
Thomas Dewey, but the country kept ... He started the general election with a big lead over the Democratic nominee, Vice President Hubert Humphrey, with President Lyndon Johnson’s administration ...
Current President and Democrat Joe Biden ... and Thomas E. Dewey randomly in 1944 over FDR. In all other election years, the ...