Alben Barkley was sworn in as Vice President after, for 10 points, what election that saw Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats take four states and the Chicago Tribune erroneously claim "Dewey Defeats Truman?"
Second-time Prohibition candidate Claude Watson campaigned in this election by piloting his own plane all across the country, and it saw Tennessee's Preston Parks act as a faithless elector. Edwin Jaeckle developed a brilliant but discarded strategy for the Republican candidate in this year, who defeated Athur Vandenberg and Harold Stassen and infamously declared "you know that your future is still ahead of you" in a speech on (*) atomic energy. A ticket featuring Fielding Wright outperformed the Progressives under New Republic editor Henry A. Wallace, but failed to split enough support to vault Earl Warren and his running mate to the White House. Alben Barkley was sworn in as Vice President after, for 10 points, what election that saw Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats take four states and the Chicago Tribune erroneously claim "Dewey Defeats Truman?"
Second-time Prohibition candidate Claude Watson campaigned in this election by piloting his own plane all across the country, and it saw Tennessee's Preston Parks act as a faithless elector.
Election of {1948}