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Control of Senate Biggest Question Mark in 1948 Election
Washington analysis focuses on 22 candidates in 11 doubtful Senate seats as Democrats aim to gain four seats to tilt the chamber. Republicans expect gains elsewhere but face tight races in Oklahoma Minnesota West Virginia Kentucky Wyoming Iowa Illinois Montana New Mexico Tennessee and more with several incumbents at risk.
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High Point
N. C
Thurs
Senate
Raymond Wilcove
Central Press
Washington
White House
United States Senate
Thomas E. Dewey
Truman
West Virginia
Kentucky
Illinois
Iowa
Montana
New Mexico
Tennessee
Colorado
Oklahoma
Ross Risley
Robert S. Kerr
E. H. Moore
Kerr
Minnesota
Joseph H. Ball
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minneapolis
Democratic- Farmer-Labor
Ball
Roosevelt
New York
Dewey
Chapman Revercomb
Matthew M. Neely
Neely
John Sherman Cooper
Alben Barkley
Virgil
Paul H. Douglas
GOP
James H. Murray
Tom J. Davis
Edwin C. Johnson
William F. Nicholson
Johnson
Clinton P. Anderson
Patrick J. Hurley
Carl A. Hatch
Rep
Estes Kefauver
Carroll Reece
Tom Stewart
Kefauver
Henry Wallace
J. Strom Thurmond
Caroline
Norman Thomas
Edward A. Teichert
Pennsylvania
Farrell
Dobbs
Socialist Workers
Claude A. Watson
California
Prohibition
Gerald L. K. Smith
Michigan
Christian Nationalist Crusade
John G. Scott
John Maxwell
Congress
House
Progressive Party
Maine
Margaret Chase Smith
Frederick G. Payne
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Sid McMath
Arkansas
Beauford H. Jester
Texas
Wallace
Indiana
Missouri
North Carolina
Wisconsin