Why did people think truman would lose the 1948 election?

a.
his opponent, thomas dewey, was a decorated war hero.

b.
the democratic party had split and polls predicted that truman would lose.

c.
truman refused to take the election seriously and campaigned very little.

d.
many southern democrats disliked truman and went over to the republican party.

The correct answer is B) "The Democratic Party had split and polls predicted that Truman would lose."

People thought that Truman would lose the 1948 election because the Democratic Party had split and polls predicted that Truman would lose.

After the 1948 Democratic Convention, held in Philadelphia in the month of July, the party nominated Harry S. Truman as its candidate to the presidency. Let's remember that Truman was already the President after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

So when the party nominated Truman, the Democratic party split when some southern delegates left the place and forme the Dixiecrats, a third political party. That is why people thought that Truman would lose the 1948 election.

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