Word: deweyitis
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...states in presidential elections. Three times since 1900 the presidential margin there has been less than 2%. In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt carried the state only 51 votes ahead of Alton B. Parker; in 1908, William Howard Taft got just 605 more votes than William Jennings Bryan; in 1948, Tom Dewey squeaked past Harry Truman...
That night at the Harvard Club, a new political party movement was born. Five days later, Colonel Robert McCormick, patriarch of the Chicago Tribune, issued the call on his radio program. Asking "followers of Jefferson and Lincoln to repudiate Truman and Dewey," he accused the backers of General Eisenhower of "supporting socialism in Europe as a prelude to bringing it here." The Colonel urged Americans not to cast a vote for President this year, but to look hopefully toward 1956 and a new party...
...Yale Daily News, undergraduate daily, last night announced its support of Governor Adlai E. Stevenson, Democratic presidential nominee. In 1948 the paper supported Governor Thomas E. Dewey, Republican candidate...
...this fall, people calling the White House would have to ask which President is in today: the five-star general from Kansas or the six-star gentleman from Ohio." Later he suggested that if the Republicans won, "Ike would be in the White House, Taft in Blair House, and Dewey in the dog house...
...Truman in 1948. Last week a Des Moines Register poll among most of Nebraska Township's 145 potential voters found 82 for Eisenhower, 33 for Stevenson. Of Eisenhower's supporters, 16 had voted for Truman in 1948; of Stevenson's, one had voted for Dewey...