Word: deweyitis
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...almost up to 1940. This was due largely to P.A.C. and its allies, the American Labor and Liberal Parties. P.A.C. and its allies then boosted F.D.R.'s city plurality above 1940-from 61.2% to 61.6%. This was enough to give F.D.R. the victory, even though Dewey got a bigger plurality upstate than Willkie...
Missouri. P.A.C.'s vote in St. Louis was the margin that put a state (given by most pollsters to Dewey) into the Roosevelt column...
California. P.A.C. could take little credit for California's Democratic gains. Governor Dewey utterly failed to carry California's rural vote, as all had expected he would. P.A.C. was also weak in Denver and Oregon (where it was split by factional fights...
...loving Republican statisticians, pencil & paper in hand, conjectured how easily Tom Dewey might have won, with but a few hundred thousand more votes in the right places. They found that a shift of only 303.414 votes would have given Tom Dewey 15 more states,*and a bare electoral majority. The exercise had one validity: it showed how much closer was the popular vote than Franklin Roosevelt's electoral sweep indicated. But Democratic lightning calculators came right back: a shift of only 282,000 votes in the Dewey states, and Franklin Roosevelt would have carried...
With final returns, Franklin Roosevelt's electoral victory increased to 432 votes-leaving 99 electoral votes from twelve states for Tom Dewey. But the popular vote (24.3 million to 21.2 million) was the closest since 1916. Franklin Roosevelt's 4,938,711 plurality in 1940 had been...