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The Year the Polls Elected Dewey
1948 Election
The table shows the results of three polls against the actual results in the 1948 presidential election. Notice that Dewey was ahead in all three polls, but ended up losing the election.
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"The 1948 Presidential Election Polls."
http://www.math.uah.edu/stat/data/1948Election.html
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