Compare And Contrast The Election Of 1948 And 2016

Compare and contrast the election of 1948 and 2016. In your opinion based on historic evidence, which factors determined the outcome of the contests?

The election of 1948 was the 41st Presidential election in the United States. The two frontrunners for each party were President Harry S. Truman from Missouri for the Democratic Party and Governor Thomas E. Dewey from New York for the Republican Party. Truman wasn’t even supposed to be President to begin with. He was chosen as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Vise President just so he could get the rural vote. Shortly after taking office Franklin D. Roosevelt died making Truman President. As President he ended World War 2 by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan. He was also extremely anti-communist which

Truman’s approval rating was so low that even people in his own party stated to turn against him. He lost some of the Democratic votes because of his stance on Civil Rights and wanting to desegregate the United States. Many of those Democrats that left mad a new party that was known as the Dixiecrats, and they wanted to keep the segregation in the south. Truman still ended up being the candidate for the Democratic Party.

Going into the election Truman’s approval rating was so low and people were so confident that newspapers wrote articles and printed papers about how Thomas E. Dewey had won and how Harry S. Truman had lost. But it turned out that Harry Truman had won which is now as the greatest Presidential upset in history. It wasn’t a small margin that he had won by. Truman had won by over 2 million votes and won the Electoral College by over 100 votes. By doing that Truman remained the 33rd President of the United States of America.

The election of 2016 was the 58th Presidential election in the United States. The two frontrunners for this election were the business man Donald J. Trump from New York for the Republican Party and the United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also from New York for the Democratic Party. Both campaigns were rattled with controversy and

One thing that made a lot of people gravitate towards him was that many voters liked that he wasn’t another politician and his promise to “drain the swamp” which means that he is going to get rid of corruption in Washington D.C. Those were constant thing throughout the whole election, but towards the end he got hit with a big scandal. There was a sound recording from when he was in a bus heading to a TV show from many years ago where he talked about sexually assaulting women. He denied doing it saying that it was just “locker room talk”, but then many women came forward saying that they were victims of him sexually assaulting them.

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign had a few scandals. One of them was that she was a corrupt politician and so she got the nickname “Crooked Clinton”, but probably her biggest scandal were her emails. She had sent government emails with classified information on a private unsecured server setup at her house. She was under investigation by the FBI during the first part of her campaign. Towards the end of the campaign some hackers thought to originate from Russia hacked her server and started to release her emails to the public which really hurt her