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 election ...

TRAINING COURSE. IT IS THE PHOTO AND THE MOMENT THAT WILL LIVE FOREVER. THE BANNER ELECTION NIGHT NEWSPAPER HEADLINE FROM. 1948 THAT GOT IT WRONG. 75 YEARS AGO TOMORROW NIGHT, THIS WAS THE FRONT PAGE ...

The suspenseful 1948 presidential election exposed the consequences of flawed polls, as Truman's astonishing victory upended ...

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 South ...

An unpopular Democratic president campaigns for re-election, dogged by inflation, domestic supply shortages and fears of World War III — and does so as he is stymied by Republicans in Congress and ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - On Nov. 3, 1948 — 75 years ago — President Harry Truman was celebrating a victory in what was the Election Day upset of the century. The erroneous Chicago Daily Tribune ...

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HOUSTON — A Houston woman has voted in every election she’s been eligible -- nearly 70 years. Mary Adkins, 101, has voted in every election since Harry Truman won in 1948’s "Dewey defeats Truman." ...