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The United States Senate elections of 1946 were in the middle of Democratic President Harry Truman’s first term.The Republican Party took control of the Senate by winning eleven seats from the Democrats.The vote was largely seen as a referendum on Truman whose approval rating had sunk to 32%[citation needed] over the president’s controversial handling of a wave of post-war labor strikes such as a nationwide railroad strike in May at a time when Americans depended on train service for both commuter and long-distance travel.
