SDMB Retrospective US Presidential Elections 1948

Looking at that polling data I’d say Dewey’s clearly got it in the bag.

Well, duh: http://newshour.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/2012/08/06/Dewey_Defeats_Truman_extra_big.JPG

I forget who said it of Dewey, but it might have hurt his chances if it was said, and truly it might have been said, that he looked “like the little man on the wedding cake.”

That was Alice Roosevelt Longworth.