@beckography: American Presidential Elections, Part 41: The Election of 1948

beckography ✈️🚊 :

Fun fact - Joe Biden and Strom Thurmond served together in the senate for 30 years. This photo of them marks two people who won electoral votes in elections 72 years apart - the widest gap of any photo of two presidential candidates

Smartguy725 :

What ever happened to that Earl Warren guy

Edward Wilson577 :

Where would you rank 2016 in upsets

Truman's Spouse :

HARRY S TRUMAN MENTIONED RAHHHHH

Kek4anski :

Fun fact: Dewey is portrayed as a villain in 1997 movie Hoodlum

Rob🌵 😎🕶🫡 :

Truman is my relative. my name is Robert Truman

Gold Coast reject :

That photo was taken on the back of the Ferdinand Magellan US car NO.1, the museum I work at has the car still

Emily :

What about 2000

cpwalkemdowncutheyshmeat :

probably the greatest campaign oat the whistle stop tour was genius along with his coalition building/management

Jack :

Crazy how Thurmond stuck around in politics until the 2000s

marshall.bergman :

People will still deny the civil rights realignment happened when Storm Thurmond is right there switching from Dem to GOP in 1964 lol

Alien Smithee :

Vinny C :

And yet republicans will still say the party switch didn’t happen

h :

I've been saying fork found in kitchen all the time for years. glad to see someone else saying it

willw1236 :

Greatest political upset in American history????

Adam :

Wallace was a really evil or naive guy. His pro-soviet stance was so blind to what was actually happening in central europe under Soviet rule.

Born2boogie :

Who is on the $500 bill? I saw one today for the first time….

Limmy S. Kennedy :

the greatest political upset is whe Andrew jackson won the popular vote and had the highest electoral college but still didn't become prez

grey_kage :

😁😁😁

kieranmccarthy771 :

😂😂😂