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...There's something stirring," Mondale said. "The people are listening . . . They're concerned. They're involved. They're ready to vote, and we're going to win this election." Brandishing a facsimile of the November 1948 Chicago Daily Tribune that carried the premature headline DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN, he mocked that paper's equivocating endorsement of Reagan this year by quoting the editorial's long list of qualms about the President.* Mondale and his running mate, Geraldine Ferraro, joined some of New York's most prominent Democratic politicians for another traditional party rally...
...return, the U.S. military government allowed Mafiosi to resume positions of power in a number of key Sicilian towns. Among the top operators in postwar Sicily was Italian-born American Mobster Vito Genovese, who had fled to Italy in 1937 when New York City Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey charged him with several underworld killings...
Among the Italian-American mobsters who are believed to have collaborated with U.S. intelligence before the Allied landing in Sicily was Charles ("Lucky')' Luciano. In 1946, Dewey commuted his 30-to 50-year sentence for running a New York prostitution ring so that he could be deported to Italy. Together with a number of other American mobsters, Luciano helped form a new organization that was far more interested in the burgeoning international drug market than in old-fashioned "businesses" such as cattle rustling and extortion. The inevitable clash between the new and old Mafia resulted in a sensational...
...Democratic party is struggling out of its New Deal skin and we're struggling out of our Tom Dewey, Wendell Wilkie skin," says Sears, a veteran of both State House and Boston city politics. "But the Republican party has never been the Yankee enclave everyone says...
Convinced that his methods were valid for political choices as well, Gallup boldly predicted in 1936 that the then dominant poll would be wrong in predicting victory for Republican Landon over Incumbent Roosevelt. Though Gallup would sometimes err, notably in 1948, when he picked Dewey over Truman, the weekly polls of his American Institute of Public Opinion and its imitators have put politicians and others in instantaneous, generally reliable contact with the public pulse and have permanently altered the conduct and the outcome of U.S. marketing and electioneering strategy...