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The 1948 Congressional Elections
Despite Dewey's Victory, the Republicans suffered major losses in Congress. Even if voters were unwilling to re-elect Harry Truman, his attacks on the Republican Controlled 80th Congress were effective, and on election day, Democrats took back control of both chambers of Congress which they had lost in 1946.

This arrangement presaged the difficulty the Dewey Administration would have in passing it's Agenda. The Democratic Congress would often stall his initiatives, in a way not too dissimilar to the way the preceding congress had stalled President Truman's Liberal agenda, and in a way which annoyed many a Republican.

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