Posted on 11/07/2020 3:44:57 PM PST by rintintin
As a presidential candidate, Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York was not a glad-hander, not a flesh-presser. He was stiff and tended toward pomposity. “The only man who could strut sitting down” was the crack that made the rounds. But on Nov. 2, 1948, Election Day, an overwhelming sense of inevitability hung about the Republican nominee. The polls and the pundits left no room for doubt: Dewey was going to defeat President Harry S. Truman. And the Tribune would be the first to report it.
Arguably the most famous headline in the newspaper’s 150-year history, DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN is every publisher’s nightmare on every election night.
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If I see one more Dewy reference I’m going to hurl.
I think it’s safe to say, that in the future, this election will be named the most famous wrong call in history. ;)
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No I’m just tired of the reference. It’s not like can claim history repeated itself because it didn’t. Well not exactly Trump one but he has no headline to hold up like Truman because, unlike Truman, he was not allowed to win
That was the time when the Chicago Tribune was a conservative publication and didn’t hesitate to challenge FDR
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