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   Defying these predictions, Truman won the election with 303 electoral votes to Dewey's 189. Truman also won 49.6% of the popular vote compared to Dewey's 45.1%, while the third-party candidacies of Thurmond and Wallace each won less than 3% of the popular vote, with Thurmond carrying four southern states.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › 1948_United_States_elections1948 United States elections - Wikipedia

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   1948 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Dewey, blue denotes states won by Truman, and orange denotes states won by Thurmond. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. The 1948 United States elections were held on November 2, 1948.

   • Election day: November 2
   • Incumbent president: Harry S. Truman (Democratic)

   • Partisan control: Democratic hold
   • Next Congress: 81st

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   What happened at the 1948 Democratic National Convention?

   • The Democratic National Convention convened in Philadelphia, July 12–14, 1948. The convention was marked by intense conflict, particularly over civil rights. Though a stronger civil rights plank was rejected, the Democratic platform did call for the desegregation of the military, enraging Southerners particularly.

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   Why did the Republicans win the election of 1946?

   • The Republicans had triumphed in the congressional elections of 1946, running against Truman as the symbol of the New Deal. That electoral victory seemed to indicate that the American people had tired of the Democrats and had grown weary of reform.

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   How many delegates voted for Truman vs Russell?

   • Nonetheless, 947 Democratic delegates voted for Truman as the Democratic nominee, while Russell received only 266 votes, all from the South. Truman's first choice for his running mate was Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, hoping that it might make the ticket more appealing to liberals. Douglas refused the nomination.

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4. www.270towin.com › 1948_Election › cmpPresidential Election of 1948 - 270toWin

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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.

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   Gallup was the first polling organization to conduct accurate opinion polling for United States presidential elections. [1] Gallup polling has often been accurate in predicting the outcome of presidential elections and the margin of victory for the winner. [2] However, it missed some close elections: 1948, 1976 and 2004, the popular vote in ...

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   Michael Levy. Results of the 1948 election. The results of the 1948 U.S. presidential election are provided in the table. United States presidential election of 1948 - Truman, Dewey, Wallace: Dewey was widely tipped by pollsters to win the election easily.

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   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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   and Thomas Dewey, the Democratic and Republican Party nominees for president in 1948. Rockwell created the painting for a Saturday Evening Post magazine cover in October 1948, just days before the election. Vocabulary Artifact- an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest