Word: deweyitis
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...Jersey City, tall, sour-faced Boss Frank Hague (who had once predicted that Truman would lose New Jersey by 300,000 votes) now did his best for Harry. Fireworks spouted like golden fountains and for a mile the crowds were jammed 40 deep. In Albany-Tom Dewey's home territory-some 10,000 people stood through an early morning downpour to hear...
...Dewey: 29 states with 350 electoral votes (needed to win: 266). California (25), Colorado (6), Connecticut (8), Delaware (3), Idaho (4), Illinois (28), Indiana (13), Iowa (10), Kansas (8), Maine (5), Maryland (8), Massachusetts (16), Michigan (19), Nebraska (6), New Hampshire (4), New Jersey (16), New York (47), North Dakota (4), Ohio (25), Oregon (6), Pennsylvania (35), South Dakota (4), Tennessee (12), Utah (4), Vermont (3), Washington (8), West Virginia (8), Wisconsin (12), Wyoming...
...Georgia, the deadlock was between Truman and Thurmond. In Florida, the Dixiecrats might prove strong enough to swing the state from Truman to Dewey. In the other doubtful states it was still a Truman-Dewey tossup...
...John Bricker had been shrewd enough to separate the state and national ballots when he was running for governor in 1940, thus avoiding burial in the Roosevelt landslide. But bumbling Tom Herbert had refused to ask the legislature to unite them again last summer to take advantage of Tom Dewey's pulling power. Plainly bored by Herbert's long-winded campaigning, many a Republican was listening to the impromptu, Lincoln-quoting speeches of Democrat Lausche, who had whipped the whole state machine to win the nomination, now was playing a lone hand with little mention of the rest...
...advice to vote against Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944. After his tirade against Harry Truman, newsmen polled many of the delegates, found that about half would vote for Truman.* Next day a rumble of opposition broke out on the convention floor over a resolution which indirectly endorsed Tom Dewey (it said that Governor Dewey had never said anything bad about the U.M.W.). The resolution passed, but the mild resentment caused the geyser to erupt again. Lewis steamily trumpeted: "If there is any man who wants to trade me off for a Truman, let him trade and be damned...