I bet if one really looked into it, Dewey DID defeat Truman.
Democrat evildoing goes way back.
In the North post Civil War it was GOP party factions in the cities battling over the spoils of patronage jobs and government contracts.
Factional gangs brawled for physical control of the polling places on election day, men grew full beards in the weeks before an election, voting early, shaving various parts of the beards, moved on to vote again and again, shaving a different part of their face between votes.