Template:Did you know nominations/Harry S. Truman 1948 presidential campaign
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by Z1720 (talk) 00:48, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
| DYK toolbox |
|---|
Harry S. Truman 1948 presidential campaign
_(cropped).jpg)
Political cartoon by Jim Berryman depicting Truman and opponent Thomas E. Dewey campaigning in whistle stop train tours.
- ... that during his 1948 presidential campaign, Harry S. Truman conducted various whistle-stop tours (pictured) across the nation, travelling 35,290 miles (56,790 km) and delivering over 250 speeches? Source: Various sources in the article, see Ref 97, 98 and 99 in this version of article.
- ALT1:... that despite most of the polls and 50 major political writers of the nation predicting victory for Dewey, Harry S. Truman won the 1948 presidential election? Source: Various sources in the article, see Ref 104 and 105 in this version of article.
- Reviewed: Sam Brownback 2008 presidential campaign
- Comment: Date request - 14/15 July (Final day of 1948 DNC, Truman officially won the nomination) See here. Another image (File:Truman-Dewey-polls-1948.jpg) can be considered if Alt 1 in chosen.
Created by Kavyansh.Singh (talk). Self-nominated at 08:37, 4 July 2021 (UTC).
Date, length and hooks all OK (my preference is for ALT1), QPQ done, no close paraphrasing. Picture licence fine. Good to go. The C of E God Save the Queen! (talk) 06:28, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
