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.

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.

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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 ...

On this day in 1948, in one of the least foreseen upsets in the annals of presidential elections, Democrat Harry S. Truman, the incumbent, defeated New York Gov. Thomas Dewey, his Republican ...

1948’s election outcome was one of the closest presidential poll results in American history. Projections leading up to Election Day overwhelmingly chose New York Governor Thomas Dewey to win.

It’s been a bungee jump of a year in American politics. Last spring, the GOP seemed poised to ride a Red Tsunami in the coming midterm elections. Democrats rallied over the summer and appeared ...

The world was a different place 68 years ago, but the post-election weariness of 1948 sounds eerily similar to 2016. The 1948 presidential election was one of confusion for American voters. In ...

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1948’s election outcome was one of the closest presidential poll results in American history. Projections leading up to Election Day overwhelmingly chose New York Governor Thomas Dewey to win.

Overall the r-squared for G.D.P. is .33 in elections since 1948. That is, about 33 percent of election results are explained by G.D.P., leaving about two-thirds of the results unexplained.