Both times, the polls were much kinder to the leftist candidate than were the election results.

And if the polls were all that accurate, we would have learned about the Dewey administration from 1949 – 1953 in American history class. The polls were so heavily in favor of Dewey that some major newspapers put their morning editions for the day after Election Day to bed with headlines touting a Dewey victory that never happened.

Instead, Harry and Bess Truman didn’t have to pack until Eisenhower beat Stevenson in 1952 and was sworn in the following year.