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Election Night Open Thread 4

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam11/09/2016 5:11:40 am PST

re: #381 Big Beautiful Door

Have you never heard of “Dewey defeats Truman”? Truman famously won in an upset for reelection in 1948.

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FDR died in 1945, and was supposed to serve until 1948. Truman finished out that term, and then ran for election in his own right as president. Technically he was not re-elected as president.