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Spanning Time: Binghamton's Secret Service leader made wrong call between Truman, Dewey

... Secret Service detail was in New York City and the office of Thomas Dewey. President Harry S. Truman holds up an election day edition of the Chicago Daily Tribune, which mistakenly announced "Dewe... read more

Curt Smith: Trump and Truman: ‘Big” and ‘little things’

Democrats sat, listening, once a middle-class party, now increasingly for open borders, identity politics, late-term abortion, socialism, and a Green New Deal to provide ... Tribune headline screamed: ... read more

BWW Review: Carmen Cusack's a Charmer in Encores! Mounting of Irving Berlin's Political Spoof CALL ME MADAM

When originally uttered, the gag involving the surprise outcome of the last presidential election no doubt reminded audience members of that infamously incorrect "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline. When ... read more

Republicans dismiss Kamala Harris at their peril

Compared to other Democrats, the president told the New York Times, she had “a better crowd ... In California, Harris was having a “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment. Like that infamous 1948 headline procl... read more

‘Dewey defeats Truman’: why headlines matter

When Truman ran for re-election in 1948, it was widely assumed he would lose to Thomas Dewey, the Republican candidate from New York — so widely assumed, apparently, that the Chicago Tribune printed i... read more

OTD in History… November 3, 1948, Truman retains the presidency in an election upset against Dewey

the beginning of a new, modern political era in American history.” SOURCES AND READ MORE Boller, Paul F. Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush. New York: Oxford University P... read more

Behind the Picture: 'Dewey Defeats Truman' and the Politics of Memory

Eugene Smith's shot of an ebullient Truman holding aloft a copy of the Chicago Tribune emblazoned with the now-legendary (erroneous) headline: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN ... heavily-favored Republican gover... read more

2004’s ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’

It was one of the enduring mysteries of the 2004 campaign: Who leaked to The New York Post that John Kerry had picked ... wrong winner in the presidential race. The headline was “Dewey Defeats Truman, ... read more

Poor polls, pundits and predictions

Famously, on November 3, 1948, the then Chicago Daily Tribune published this banner headline 'Dewey Defeats Truman ... first with the news. Truman's defeat, according to groupthinkers, was set in rein... read more

Dewey Defeats Truman redux? Early edition of Boston Globe had Patriots losing Super Bowl

The Boston Globe regrets the error, no doubt. The biggest local newspaper covering the New England Patriots also has a worldwide subscription base, and with Super Bowl LI running late into the night — ... read more

When the political press got it wrong. Trump? No, Truman

there was Harry Truman's upset victory in 1948. The journalistic failings were summed up by the infamous Chicago Tribune headline "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN ... Thomas Dewey, the Republican governor of New ... read more

Boston Globe has Dewey-defeats-Truman moment

New England eventually would trail 28-3 in the third quarter. Inevitably a collector’s item, the erroneous conclusion proves the danger of declaring any sporting event to be over before it is. Even wh... read more