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The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948.
- Missouri
- Democratic
- Harry S. Truman
- Alben W. Barkley
- Overview
- The campaign
- Election night
Dewey was widely tipped by pollsters to win the election easily. Indeed, the New York Times claimed that Dewey’s election was a “foregone conclusion,” and Life magazine had run a caption several months before the election declaring Dewey the “next president of the United States.” In early September 1948 Elmo Roper, of Roper Research Associates, reported that Truman trailed Dewey by about 13 percent in the polls.
Nevertheless, Truman refused to believe he stood no chance. He launched a cross-country whistle-stop campaign, railing against the “do-nothing, good-for-nothing Republican Congress.”In more than 300 speeches in more than 250 cities and covering some 21,000 miles (34,000 km), Truman hammered away at Republican support for the antilabour Taft-Hartley Act (passed over Truman’s veto) and other conservative policies as crowds responded with “Give ’em hell, Harry!” With three other candidates in the race, Dewey waged a noncommittal campaign, purposely designed to avoid offending any segment of the electorate. The excitement generated by Truman’s vigorous campaigning contrasted sharply with Dewey’s lacklustre speeches.
Dewey was widely tipped by pollsters to win the election easily. Indeed, the New York Times claimed that Dewey’s election was a “foregone conclusion,” and Life magazine had run a caption several months before the election declaring Dewey the “next president of the United States.” In early September 1948 Elmo Roper, of Roper Research Associates, reported that Truman trailed Dewey by about 13 percent in the polls.
Nevertheless, Truman refused to believe he stood no chance. He launched a cross-country whistle-stop campaign, railing against the “do-nothing, good-for-nothing Republican Congress.”In more than 300 speeches in more than 250 cities and covering some 21,000 miles (34,000 km), Truman hammered away at Republican support for the antilabour Taft-Hartley Act (passed over Truman’s veto) and other conservative policies as crowds responded with “Give ’em hell, Harry!” With three other candidates in the race, Dewey waged a noncommittal campaign, purposely designed to avoid offending any segment of the electorate. The excitement generated by Truman’s vigorous campaigning contrasted sharply with Dewey’s lacklustre speeches.
As the returns rolled in on election night, Truman took a narrow lead, but political commentators still believed that Dewey would ultimately win. Emblematic of this was the Chicago Daily Tribune’s decision to distribute a paper with the famous headline “Dewey Defeats Truman.” The Tribune was not alone that night in its error. NBC radio commentator H.V. Kaltenborn reported, “Mr. Truman is still ahead, but these are returns from a few cities. When the returns come in from the country the result will show Dewey winning overwhelmingly.” Truman would soon go to bed, convinced that he would win. In the early hours of the morning, Truman was awakened to hear that he led by two million votes but that Kaltenborn was still claiming that Truman would not win. By mid-morning Dewey had sent a telegram to Truman conceding the election. Dewey, clearly dumbfounded, said in a news conference on November 3, “I was just as surprised as you are.”
When the final votes were tallied, Truman had won by a comfortable margin, capturing 49.4 percent of the vote to Dewey’s 45.0 percent. In the electoral college Truman amassed 303 votes by winning 28 states, while Dewey captured 189 electoral votes by winning 16 states. Thurmond drew the votes of only 2.4 percent of the public, though he garnered more than one million votes; because his supporters were concentrated heavily in the South, he was able to win four states (Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina) and 39 electoral votes (one Tennessee elector cast his electoral vote for Thurmond rather than Truman, the state’s winner). Wallace won only 13,000 fewer popular votes than Thurmond, but with diffuse support he came close to winning no state.
Learn More. United States presidential election of 1948, American presidential election held on Nov. 2, 1948, in which Democratic Pres. Harry S. Truman defeated Republican Thomas E. Dewey. The roots of the 1948 election date to 1940, when Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to run for an unprecedented third.
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Issues of the Day: Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift. Results of the presidential election of 1948, won by Harry S. Truman with 303 electoral votes.
