United States Presidential Election, 1948 (Confederate Wipe Out CYOAH)

The United States Presidential Election of 1948 was the 41st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948. Incumbent President Harry S. Truman, the Democratic nominee, who had succeeded to the presidency after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, successfully ran for election for a full term against Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican nominee, who also was the Republican presidential nominee in 1944.

Truman's victory is considered to be one of the greatest election upsets in American history. Virtually every prediction (with or without public opinion polls) indicated that he would be defeated by Dewey. The Democratic Party had a severe three-way ideological split, with the far left of the party (Henry A. Wallace of the Progressive Party) running a third-party campaign.