Rhodes Cook is a veteran Washington political analyst who tracks national elections and voting trends and publishes a bimonthly political newsletter. Click here for Cook's full bio.It has been 60 ...

Seventy-five years ago to the day, our presses rolled out the most notorious headline in this newspaper’s 176-year history: “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” Well, no, he didn’t. When the presses rolled on the ...

As a presidential candidate, Gov. Thomas Dewey of New York was not a glad-hander, not a flesh-presser. He was stiff and tended toward pomposity. “The only man who could strut sitting down” was the ...

For a decade bassist/singer James Reader and drummer Scott Frazier were in two different “Casbah bands” that went on to get national buzz: Red Dye No. 5 and, later, Dewey Defeats Truman. The 1995 Red ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. In this presidential election year, historian and journalist A.J. Baime has given America a winner — “Dewey Defeats Truman,” ...

Kamela Harris’s run for the presidency is showing earmarks of the above-the-fray campaign that Thomas E. Dewey mounted for president in 1948, losing what pollsters, pundits and the press then regarded ...