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...York State: Dewey Runs Again...
This year may well be the last time Thomas E. Dewey tries for major political office. Dewey, who is not yet 50, has run five times previously for a high position, and today voters seem to be growing tired...
...Dewey is favored to defeat his formerly unknown opponent, Representative Walter A. Lynch, in the New York gubernatorial race, but the margin should be very close--nothing like the 687,000 plurality that the governor achieved in 1946. And Lynch may even upset Dewey, something which seemed impossible six weeks ago. The two factors which have weakened the governor's chances are a growing dislike of him in upstate New York and the "Hanley letter...
...years Dewey has kept dissident Republican politicians in check with the threat that "he would soon be in the White House." The 1948 election exploded that myth for everyone except Dewey's closest advisers. If enough rural Republicans in northern New York stay away from the polls or refuse to vote for Dewey because of his "dictatorial" rule of the state, the governor may not have a large enough majority to overcome Lynch's Democratic sweep of New York City...
...Governor Dewey decided to run again...