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Originally Posted by Johny Joe Hold
There is another scientific reason we can be assured of a Trump victory. The election is playing out exacting like the one in 1948.
In that election a guy from New York, Thomas Dewey, (Hillary is from New York) ran against a commoner like Donald, Harry Truman. Dewey was predicted to win by everyone. The Chicago Tribune even claimed early the next morning Dewey had won.
But, Truman won. We can be confident a Donald win is coming.
Truman defeats Dewey- In the greatest upset in presidential election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, by just over two million popular votes. In the days preceding the vote, political analysts and polls were so behind Dewey that on election night, long before all the votes were counted, the Chicago Tribune published an early edition with the banner headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.”
Harry Truman was thrust into the presidency by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death in 1945. Approaching the 1948 presidential election, he seemed to stand a slim chance of retaining the White House. Despite his effective leadership at the end of World War II and sound vision in the confused postwar world, many voters still viewed Truman as an ineffectual shadow of his four-term predecessor. He also antagonized Southern Democrats with his civil rights initiatives. Most were sure that Dewey would take the White House.
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1948; that was the year that the residents of Jim Wells County in South Texas lined up in alphabetical order, including the dead people, and voted for Lyndon Johnson in such overwhelming numbers that they were able to overcome the 20,000 vote lead that Coke Stevenson had in the primary election for the Democrat nomination for Senator. Lyndon went on to become the President of the U.S. and a very rich man based on that stunning victory.
Lyndon Johnson was a fine man, though a Democrat, and well ahead of his peers in the area of racial equality. He was once out registering voters in a South Texas, writing down the names on tombstones, when a campaign aide said, "But Mr. Johnson, those are all Mexicans". Lyndon looked at the young volunteer sternly and said, "Son, those Mexicans have as much right to vote as anybody in this graveyard."