Description. In what was considered a major upset in the 1948 presidential election, Democratic President Harry Truman defeated Republican New York Governor Thomas Dewey and third-party candidates ...

1948 Election. Showing 1 - 5 of 5 Results. Home / Archives. House, Senate go to Democrats. By RAYMOND LAHR, United Press Writer. Democrats today captured control of both houses of Congress.

The 1948 Economic Moment That Might Explain Our Own In the aftermath of World War II, many Americans found themselves frustrated by the policies of the president, Harry S. Truman. 2024-02-05T06:00 ...

The 1948 presidential election almost became a constitutional crisis. Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare for POLITICO By Jeff Greenfield. 09/24/2023 07:00 AM EDT. Link Copied.

5. 1948 legacy that will limit Biden and Trump: The 22 Amendment Regardless of who wins in November, Trump and Biden will be limited by a lasting legacy of the 1948 election.

President Harry S. Truman successfully led the United States out of World War II — then overcame domestic dissent and predictions of the pundits to win the 1948 election.

The Chicago Tribune covered its first presidential election in 1848. The race a century later, however, would result in the newspaper’s most famous headline: “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.&#822… ...

Harry S. Truman’s stunning, come-from-behind victory in the 1948 presidential election has encouraged frissons of optimism for long-shot candidates ever since. Walter Mondale invoked the 1948 ...

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Mr. Truman’s popularity collapsed. By spring in 1948, an election year, his approval rating had fallen to 36 percent, down from over 90 percent at the end of World War II.

For today’s reporters, the 1948 election debacle offers a clear warning about the fallibility of polls, which have underestimated Trump’s support among the white working class in both the 2016 ...