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Only twice did the cold creep into Truman's manner. When Georgia's Governor "Hummon" Talmadge rode past, the President pointedly turned his back to talk to a companion. And when South Carolina's Governor J. Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrats' candidate for President, doffed his hat in salute, Harry Truman stared him coldly in the eye, his mouth a thin, grim line...
Under the Lodge-Gossett system, the electoral vote for 1948 would have been divided thus: Truman, 258.098; Dewey, 221.464; Thurmond, 38.769; and Wallace (who received no electoral vote under the present system), 9.987.† To most citizens, it seemed that some such accurate reflection of the popular vote was long overdue...