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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

The Real Story of the 1948 Election

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Was it a comeback, really, or did the polls just get what was going on wrong. Days before the 2016 election, we looked at this question. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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An image of a folks seat of fire president appearing at whistle stops all across the country

0:40.0

from the back of his train car, meeting farmers, the average people, a common man telling

0:45.6

him he'd like his job back please. And telling him about the do-nothing Congress that he has to work with the Republicans those terrible

0:54.7

Republicans they were allied with a blood suckers on Wall Street yeah those blood

1:00.8

suckers on Wall Street do seem to show up in every American election.

1:05.0

Republican platform favors a quality of educational opportunity in their promotion of education.

1:10.0

I've been trying to get Congress to do something about that ever since they came there

1:15.9

and that bill is at rest in the House of Representatives.

1:20.3

Until the crowd agrees with him and surges and one member says give him hell Harry

1:26.3

It's a great political story president comes back after his train campaign and he won the election.

1:36.0

There's nothing about the story that's fiction.

1:40.0

But the story of the 1948 election is a much more complex story than just the narrative that's often told. The Oh, You start with. I hate to do this. The whole Give Him Hell Harry thing.

2:35.0

Well, it's an eight who jumps off the campaign train, goes into the crowd and then at a certain point in the speech he shouts

2:44.3

Gimm Hellhauer and yes as the campaign progressed eventually there would be

2:50.8

legitimate members of the crowd who were actually doing it

2:54.0

spontaneously on their own once they heard that this was the thing to shout.

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