Every #Mastodon / #Fediverse poll that includes the text "boost for larger sample size" should be required to have "Dewey Defeats Truman" as one of the poll answers.

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Image 3: President Truman delivers an address to Congress on March 12, 1947.

Source (quote): Dinner with the President by Alex Prud’homme
Source (images): The New York Times, LIFE, The Saturday Evening Post

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More on the original #DeweyDefeatsTruman photograph, which was taken 75 years ago today (Nov. 4, 1948). 🗃️

www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org/dewey-defeat...

#OnThisDay in alternate history...

(Cover art from Alternate Presidents, a 1992 anthology edited by Mike Resnick: www.uchronia.net/label/resnal...)

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