Which of the following did not occur in the 1948 presidential election?
A) Southern segregationists bolted the Democratic party.
B) Leftwing Democrats joined with communists to launch a new Progressive Party.
C) Truman blasted the "no-good, do-nothing" Republicans as "gluttons of privilege." Pollsters predicted a Dewey victory.
D) Governor Thomas Dewey of New York defeated President Truman for reelection.
E) The radicalism of the Progressives and Dixiecrats kept most moderates safely in the Democratic fold.
D
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