 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Musi waJuly 12, Democratic National Conventionvakaungana muPhiladelphia munhandare imwe cheteyo umo maRepublican akanga asangana mavhiki mashomanene pamberi pezvi. Mudzimu wakanga wakaderera; maRepublican akanga atora masimba edzimba dzose mbiri dzeUnited States Congress uye ruzhinji rwehurumende dzehurumende munguva ye 1946 sarudzo dzepakati, uye kuongororwa kwevanhu kwakaratidza Truman achitevera muRepublican nominee Dewey, dzimwe nguva nemadhijiti maviri. Uyezve, mamwe maLiberal Democrats akanga abatana neNew Progressive Party yaHenry A. Wallace, uye vatungamiriri vebato vaitya kuti Wallace aizotora mavhoti akakwana kubva kuna Truman kupa nyika huru dzokuNorth neMidwestern kuRepublicans. VaConservative vaitonga bato racho muSouth, uye vakatsamwiswa nenzwi riri kukura remasangano evashandi uye vavhoti vatema mubato kunze kweSouth. Tariro yokuti Truman aizochinja nzira yakanga yapera muna 1947, paakaramba mutemo weTaft-Hartley, uyo ungadai wakabetsera kudzora simba remubatanidzwa. Kugadza kwaTruman komisheni yerusununguko rwemagariro evanhu kwakagombedzera vachengeti vekumaodzanyemba kuti kuti vagadzirezve inzwi ravo vaifanira kutyisidzira chiito chechitatu-bato kuti vakunde Truman muna 1948. Truman aiziva kuti akanga asingafarirwi nevanhu. Muna Chikunguru 1947, akazvipira pachivande kuti ave mukwikwidzi waEisenhower tikiti reDemocratic kana MacArthur akakunda kusarudzwa kweRepublican, kupihwa kwakadzikiswa naEisenhower. Chipo chaTruman kuna Eisenhower hachina kuzivikanwa pachena mukati mokuronga. 