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Hello, and welcome to This Day in History. Here’s what happened on November 2nd. Tomorrow is Election Day, the last day to vote in this year’s presidential election. And with many pundits predicting a close race, we look back to one of the most surprising upsets in presidential history. On this day in 1948, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated his Republican challenger, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, by just over two million popular votes. The result shocked Americans.
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