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Stevenson campaigned hard against Eisenhower, with television ads for the first time being the dominant medium for both sides. Eisenhower's 1952 election victory had been due in large part to winning the female vote; hence, during this campaign there was a plethora of "housewife"-focused ads.
When the 1952 Republican National Convention opened in Chicago, most political experts rated Taft and Eisenhower as about equal in delegate vote totals. Eisenhower's managers, led by both Dewey and Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., accused Taft of "stealing" delegate votes in Southern states such as Texas and Georgia, and claimed that Taft's leaders in those states had unfairly ...
Despite some campaigners writing the state off for the GOP, [23] Tennessee was won by Eisenhower with 49.21 percent of the popular vote, against Stevenson’s 48.60 percent. This was a slight increase upon Eisenhower’s 1952 margin, due entirely to large gains from 1952 amongst the substantial black electorate of Memphis.
Incumbent Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower won reelection in a landslide, while the Democrats retained control of Congress. In the presidential election, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democratic former Governor Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois in a re-match of the 1952 election. Eisenhower won the popular vote by ...
Dwight D. Eisenhower's tenure as the 34th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1953, and ended on January 20, 1961. Eisenhower, a Republican from Kansas, took office following his landslide victory over Democratic nominee Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 presidential election.
Eisenhower received 61.19% of the vote to Stevenson's 38.78%, a margin of 22.41%. Eisenhower won 4,340,340 votes, the most ever received by a Republican presidential candidate in the state's history. New York weighed in for this election as eight percentage points more Republican than the national average.
Republican nominee Five-star general Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Democratic governor Adlai Stevenson of Illinois. [3] [4] Eisenhower won the popular vote by eleven points, and carried every state outside the South. Eisenhower took the Republican nomination on the first ballot, defeating Ohio senator Robert A. Taft and California governor Earl ...
Eisenhower vs. Stevenson may refer to one of two United States presidential elections won by Dwight D. Eisenhower against Adlai Stevenson II: 1952 United States presidential election , won by Dwight D. Eisenhower against Adlai Stevenson II