Every one expected Thomas Dewey to win the 1948 election by a landside. Elmo Roper said he would take no further polls because he had something better to do. Harry Truman was called the " little man", he was the underdog, but he won anyway.
Truman traveled 32,000 miles and gave 355 speeches in six weeks. He traveled in his pullman car. The Chicago Tribune wanted to be the first to break the news and put on the cover a Dewey victory. The next morning Truman won. It was an upset.
That's why Barak Obama tells his workers to keep on pushing and don't give up. In 2004, 129,000 voters in Ohio were weary from standing in long lines, and they went home without voting.
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