During the campaign, a supporter called out, “Governor Stevenson, all thinking people are for you!”
Adlai Stevenson answered, “That’s not enough. I need a majority.”
That was his “basket of deplorables” moment.
funny though.
He managed to tragically kill a girl through an accidental discharge with a rifle at a birthday party when he was a boy, iirc. At least the barefoot Missouri hick rubes in flyover Jesusland knew how to handle a weapon.
And maybe Dewey really did defeat Truman. Check for voting fraud. Those democrats have been at this crap for a long, long time.