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...must fundamentally change. Says Larry Hansen, administrative assistant to retiring Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III: "This is a party with no sense of what it's about, what it should be about, where it's going, where it should go. It tends to be dominated by men whose enthusiasm ran out a decade ago. There is no vision...
More moderate Democrats managed to hold off the aggressive Republican assault especially in the Midwest. Alan J. Dixon, for example, defeated David O'Neal for the seat of Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-Ill.), while incumbent Sens. Thomas Eagleton (D-Mo.) and John Glenn (D-Oh.) overcame Republican challengers. Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) pulled out a last-minute victory over Mary Estill Buchanan...
Carter's showing was slightly better than that of the Democratic candidate George McGovern, who won only 17 electoral votes in 1972. The president was close to the electoral vote total of Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and Barry Goldwater...
...faith in the likeable personality is not after all stronger than its faith in conscious leadership. For this is how the campaign has shaped up. On the one hand, there has been good old Ike, with beaming countenance and sincere reassurance. On the other hand, there has been Adlai, looking not quite so All-American, but better-informed and offering a few comprehensive plans for a New America and a chaotic world...
...Mansfield, the year in which the nominating process worked most effectively was 1952, when Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were "two high-caliber candidates chosen by high-level party officials, not primaries." Wilson agrees, adding that it and the 1948 Truman-Dewey contest "were elections in which both parties picked their strongest candidates," thanks to the influence of party officials...