Sixty Years of Election-Night Drama

The Democratic incumbent trumpets the Chicago Daily Tribune where the Republican-leaning editors went to press prematurely with the wrong winner on their front page.
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1948, Harry S. Truman
The Democratic incumbent trumpets the Chicago Daily Tribune, where the Republican-leaning editors went to press prematurely with the wrong winner on their front page.

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