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From the archive: Truman confounds laws of man and Roper

Source: The Guardian

Nov 04, 2009

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Originally published on 4 November 1948

NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 3.

The American people went to bed early to-day in the echo of a thunderbolt. It was divine wrath descending on Mr. Elmo Roper, whose previous record for high scientific accuracy in the matter of Presidential elections was shattered by that same "little man" from Independence, Missouri, formerly known as "the country boy in the White House" and the "piano player," henceforth to be known as the fabulous, the irrepressible, Heroic S. Truman, the Missouri David who slew Goliath while the people slept.

After a long night during which Truman confounded the laws of man and Roper by staying ahead of Governor Dewey by a stubborn million votes, nothing was certain by daybreak, except that some collateral miracle had swept the Republicans out of power in the House of Representatives.

The history of this night will become an American fable, and it had better be told now before the humdrum facts are forgotten. It is essential to the pride of American radio that every network must get ahead with reports of "major tren

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