The democratic platform in 1948 was fairly conservative seeing that truman knew his reelection would be close, true or false

True

the democratic party knew that not only was the election close but also the chances of conservative republicans winning the election were fairly high. they thus were fairly conservative, putting the liberal flame a bit low, with an aim of winning on the growing conservative popularity. The election of Truman for the second term was a major upset in the history of the country.