1948 and 1952 Elections
1948
- Democrat- Truman
- Energetic campaign, confident
- Voter loyalty to the New Deal
- Anticommunist, tough national security
- Republican- Dewey
- polls predicted he would win, didn't try very hard
- So confident he would win that he booked the hotel suite the president used
- State's Rights (Dixicrats)- Thurmond
- Popular in South, segregationist
- Progressive- Wallace
- no electoral votes
1952
- Democrat- Adlai Stevenson, segregationist
- Republican- Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon
- K1C2 "Korea, corruption, and communism"
- Truman rating down
- Conservatives win all states
- Eisenhower was the first military leader to become president since Grant
- Republicans control House, Senate, and Presidency
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