Word: dewey
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...were wrong. In the end, Hulshof won the nomination by 168 votes, confirming his expertise in close finishes--he lost to incumbent Harold Volkmer by 5% in 1994. But with Volkmer's support dwindling in the past two elections, Hulshof could wake up on Nov. 6 to find out...Dewey won again...
VICTOR SNYDER Democrat--Arkansas 2nd In a classic dewey beats truman scenario, the media projected Snyder's opponent as the winner, though Snyder came back to win this open seat by a 4% margin in the final tally...
...Israeli election, when the race was too close to call but exit polls had Prime Minister Shimon Peres in front of challenger Benjamin Netanyahu, Morris wanted Clinton to go in front of the TV cameras to congratulate Peres on his victory, which would have been a blunder of Dewey-beats-Truman proportions. Stephanopoulos quietly killed the idea...
...remember the splendid ventings of spleen: Taft-backer Everett Dirksen in 1952, thundering down from the podium at Ike-supporter Tom Dewey: "We followed you before, and you took us down the road to defeat!" And Senator Abe Ribicoff in 1968 denouncing "Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago!" as Mayor Richard Daley hurled back imprecations that amazed lip readers across the country...
Perhaps John Dewey, the greatest American "philosopher of democracy," described a deliberative style of politics best when he insisted that "Majority rule, just as majority rule, is as foolish as its critics charge it with being...The means by which a majority comes to be a majority is the more important thing: antecedent debates, modification of views to meet the opinions of minorities, [and] perfecting processes of inquiry." Writing in the late 1920s, when many authors questioned the viability of democratic processes, Dewey discerned the preconditions for reform: "The essential need, in other words, is the improvement of the methods...