In each of the 48 states last week, TIME correspondents made their predictions on the 1948 election. The box score, in electoral votes:
Dewey: 29 states with 350 electoral votes (needed to win: 266). California (25), Colorado (6), Connecticut (8), Delaware (3), Idaho (4), Illinois (28), Indiana (13), Iowa (10), Kansas (8), Maine (5), Maryland (8), Massachusetts (16), Michigan (19), Nebraska (6), New Hampshire (4), New Jersey (16), New York (47), North Dakota (4), Ohio (25), Oregon (6), Pennsylvania (35), South Dakota (4), Tennessee (12), Utah (4), Vermont (3), Washington (8), West Virginia (8), Wisconsin (12), Wyoming (3).
Truman: 9 states with 83 electoral votes. Arizona (4), Arkansas (9), Kentucky (11), Montana (4), New Mexico (4), North Carolina (14), Oklahoma (10), Rhode Island (4), Texas (23).
Thurmond: 4 states with 38 electoral votes. Alabama (11), Louisiana (10), Mississippi (9), South Carolina (8).
Doubtful: 6 states with 60 electoral votes. Florida (8), Georgia (12), Minnesota (11), Missouri (15), Nevada (3), Virginia (11).
In Georgia, the deadlock was between Truman and Thurmond. In Florida, the Dixiecrats might prove strong enough to swing the state from Truman to Dewey. In the other doubtful states it was still a Truman-Dewey tossup.
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