FRANCISCO S. TATAD
FRANCISCO S. TATAD

Donald Trump’s phenomenal win in the US presidential elections, against all pre-election forecasts of a Hillary Clinton victory, has been described in the British press as America’s Brexit--recalling the stunning British vote on June 23, 2016 to leave the European Union despite all pre-referendum surveys predicting a majority decision to “remain.” This was not the first major upset in US presidential history. But it is on the same class as Harry Truman’s election on Nov. 2, 1948 when the widely underrated incumbent president, who had come to office upon the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945, won by the skin of his teeth after all the opinion polls had predicted his defeat to Republican challenger Gov. Thomas Dewey, and the Chicago Tribune had screamed in its early election-day headline, “Dewey Defeats Truman.”

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