{"id":7588,"date":"2010-11-02T10:02:13","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T14:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2010-11-02T10:02:13","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T14:02:13","slug":"dewey-defeats-truman-this-date-in-history-provides-cautionary-tale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7588\/dewey-defeats-truman-this-date-in-history-provides-cautionary-tale\/","title":{"rendered":"“Dewey Defeats Truman” – This Date in History Provides Cautionary Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"

By all accounts<\/a>, American voters have regained sobriety and will deliver resounding victories for conservatives today.\u00a0 This date in history, however, provides a cautionary tale for anyone even thinking of not voting because they assume that victory is in the bag.<\/p>\n

Today in 1948<\/a>, political pundits were so certain of a Thomas Dewey victory over Harry Truman that the Chicago Tribune<\/em> prematurely published its infamous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline.\u00a0 Need another cautionary tale?\u00a0 How about the 2008 Minnesota Senate race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken?\u00a0 There, Franken and his election attorneys somehow contorted an election night deficit into a narrow recount victory, possibly with the help of felon voters<\/a>.\u00a0 Nobody’s laughing now that the chronically unfunny Franken routinely makes a mockery<\/a> of his Senate seat.<\/p>\n

So don’t take anything for granted.\u00a0 Too many people have fought and died to protect your right to affect this nation’s course, and too many people have worked too hard to provide alternatives to the bland “same ol’, same ol'” choice.\u00a0 You don’t want to be kicking yourself tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By all accounts, American voters have regained sobriety and will deliver resounding victories for conservatives today.\u00a0 This date in history, however, provides a cautionary tale for anyone even thinking of not voting because they assume that victory is in the bag. Today in 1948, political pundits were so certain of a Thomas Dewey victory over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[782,84,2027,2026,111,24,38,179,28],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2010-midterm-elections","tag-congress","tag-dewey-defeats-truman","tag-election","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-obama","tag-senate","tag-stimulus","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7596,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions\/7596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}