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Wallace didn't do well, actually his party fell apart. He was in sort of spirituality
华莱士表现不佳，事实上他的政党支离破碎，他有种精神寄托
He had a guru who didn't go over very well in 1948
与一个宗教领袖来往慎密，在1948年还爆发了丑闻
and that actually probably helped Truman, Truman would say he did not to worry about being caught soft on communism
这实际上可能帮助了杜鲁门，杜鲁门说他一点都不担心自己被谴责对共产主义态度不够强硬
because he had someone on his left, so it may even help him
因为还有人比他还要左，因此这有可能帮了他
You can see Thurmond won a number of states in the far south
瑟蒙德在最南部赢得了一些州
but Truman captured most of the south, captured most of the west
但杜鲁门赢得了大部分南部地区，大部分西部地区
and the urban cities especially the eastern cities was able to be elected again
以及很多城市尤其是东部的城市，因而杜鲁门得以再次当选
You can see how x the state boundary is matter a lot
从图中可以看出州界的划分有多重要

This is a day when the state political, the party machinery could really control things
这个时期是一个州的政治势力和政党机器可以控制事态发展的年代
that doesn't happen so much anymore but they did then
在那之后这种情况鲜有发生，但在当时确实如此
You can see Dewey is doing very well in the places like New York
你们看，杜威在纽约州等地表现的非常好
but New York City again so important giving its vote for Truman and Truman getting the elections obviously
但纽约市再一次将重要的一票投给了杜鲁门，很明显，杜鲁门赢得了选举
The Republicans had a bit of drop ahead then to 1952
此后在1952年共和党人遭遇了一个小低迷期
The Republicans had a split this time between the moderates
共和党产生了分歧，一方是温和派
Dewey had certainly been a moderate who were upsetting much of the New Deal
杜威当然一直都是温和派，他对新政的很多内容感到担忧
versus the Old Guard led by Robert Taft of Ohio who were relatively isolationistic and did not like the New Deal at all
另一方是保守派，由俄亥俄州的罗伯特塔夫脱领导，他较为倡导孤立主义，对新政一点也不感兴趣

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这一集大致讲述了1920－1972年总统大选的历史与过程，主要以一战、1929大萧条、二战、美苏冷战为历史背景，穿插了西奥多罗斯福，富兰克林罗斯福，杜鲁门，肯尼迪等几位著名美国总统的竞选和执政经历。