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...Long, Steep Climb. With such factors in mind-plus the fact that even in the Midwest the farm vote is less than 20% of the total-Adlai Stevenson's big farm push seemed to be winning back only Missouri (where his prospects look good) and Oklahoma (where he. appears to have a decided edge), along with a chance for Minnesota. Given those three and the South (although Florida and border-state Kentucky cannot be considered solid for the Democrats), Stevenson would still fall considerably short of the necessary 266 electoral votes...
...Magnuson's flying coattails in Washington-and the industrial Northeast, where Pennsylvania looked especially important to the political swarms that were heading its way. That the Stevenson campaign still faced a steep uphill climb was evidenced by last week's Gallup poll, showing Ike still ahead of Adlai by 52% to 41%, with 7% undecided. For all the talk of farm revolt and G.O.P. disaster, Adlai Stevenson had not yet gained a single percentage point on Dwight Eisenhower since the poll published two weeks earlier...
...Democratic farm program as outlined by Candidate Adlai Stevenson in speeches at Newton, Iowa and Oklahoma City...
From Miami to Minneapolis, through nine states and across 3,600 miles. Adlai Stevenson went whirling across the U.S. landscape last week, spouting sparks and smoke. He showered scorn and anger on all Republicans, but saved his biggest rockets to lob at Dwight Eisenhower and members of his personal and official family. Such pyrotechnics did not go unappreciated. Time after time, voices in his small but enthusiastic audiences cried out, "Give 'em hell, Adlai." And the new Adlai, when he heard, would grin and crack back: "I'm doing my best...
...liveliest campaign week to date Adlai Stevenson...