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As it has been predicted by the polls for months, Election Night on November, 2 1948, the Republican New York Governor Thomas Edmund Dewey is elected President of the United States over incumbent Democratic President Harry S. Truman, by 267 electoral votes to 225, and despite losing the popular vote. The GOP also lose control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

Dewey's narrow presidential victory and loss of the Congress is blamed on its internal dissensions between him and Taft's conservatives, the reputation of "Do-Nothing Congress" made by Truman and the quite spineless campaign of Dewey.

However, the blow is harder for the Democrats. Everything is blamed on Truman's falling popularity, and it seems that the Democrats couldn't have retained the White House long after FDR has passed away. The pro-civil rights platform presented by Hubert Humphrey (who becomes Senator from Minnesota) is also viewed as either a too early or too bad swift for the Democratic Party, as Thurmond' States Rights Party took 39 electoral votes Truman would've needed, and therefore force the Democrats to concentrate over their Southern electorate. Former Vice-President Wallace's Progressives also fail their entrance into national politics, due to their poor score.



Thomas Edmund Dewey (NY)/Earl Warren (CA) - Republican - 22,020,585 (45,13%) - 19 states carried - 267 electoral votes (50, 3%)

Harry S. Truman (MO)/Alben William Barkley (KY) - Democratic - 24,150,051 (49, 49%) - 25 states carried - 225 electoral votes (42, 4%)
James Storm Thurmond (SC)/Fielding Lewis Wright (MS) - Dixiecrat - 1,176,125 (2.41%) - 4 states carried - 39 electoral votes (7, 3%)
Henry Agard Wallace (IA)/Glen Hearst Taylor (ID) - Progressive - 1,157,326 (2, 37%) - no states carried, no electoral votes
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