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...Univac is an electronic brain which the Columbia Broadcasting System hired to provide cold and early mathematical calculation of election trends. But Univac turned out to be as cautious as a pollster in the hands of cautious masters. At 10 o'clock, an assistant to Adlai Stevenson stated in Springfield, 111.: "The news is not good and it looks pretty grim." But it was nearly 10:30 before Univac found the same kind of perspicacity, calculated that Ike would win by 314 electoral votes to Stevenson's 217 (or 27 million popular votes to Stevenson...
...Kansas by 68%, Wisconsin by 60% (with Senator Joe McCarthy well ahead of Democratic Candidate Thomas Fairchild but trailing both Ike and Governor Walter Kohler Jr.). In Minnesota, Ike was 5,600 votes ahead in St. Paul, which gave Tru man a majority of 40,000 in 1948. Even Adlai Stevenson's Illinois had fallen. Ike jumped into a narrow lead, cutting sharp ly into Stevenson's expected majority in Chicago and rolling up so decisive a ma jority downstate that Democratic Boss Jake Arvey conceded before midnight...
...first minutes of Wednesday, Stephen Mitchell, Adlai Steven son's hand-picked chairman of the Demo cratic National Committee, stood like the boy on the burning deck. The Republi cans had not won, he said; final returns would show a Democratic majority in Ohio and Pennsylvania. But within the hour, the Ohio Democratic state chair man conceded Ike's victory in the state (although Ohio's popular Democrat Frank Lausche was winning the governorship...
Philadelphia, stubborn and alone, bucked the tide. Once the home of unreconstructed Republicanism, it became, the only important area where the Democrats made big gains in 1952. Harry Truman had carried it by a mere 7,000 in 1948; Adlai Stevenson swept it by 160,000. There were several reasons for this: the heavily Democratic Jewish and Negro vote held firm; there were few defections from the Irish Democratic vote. More important, Philadelphians had thrown out their corrupt and senile city-Republican machine in 1951, and for the first time, the controlled river wards were in the hands of Democrats...
Melodrama and misadventure characterized the last week of Adlai Stevenson's campaign. Five days before the election, while whistle-stopping through the East, he got word that a riot among the convicts at Illinois' Menard state penitentiary was still out of hand. Interrupting his campaign, Stevenson flew off to the prison to watch, pale and tired, as armed state troopers routed out 300 rebellious prisoners who had barricaded themselves in a cell block. Governor Stevenson, who got to the scene in time to go over the plan of action with Lieutenant Governor Sherwood Dixon and other state officials...