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...Republican National Committee plowed into Des Moines through six-inch snows and below-zero temperatures for an election post-mortem last week, the weather matched the mood of National Chairman Meade Alcorn. Ever since Democrats clobbered the Republicans at the polls, Alcorn has been picking apart November's returns for a clue to what happened to the G.O.P. His report: "Our party has suffered a humiliating defeat. We took a bad beating. There are no alibis -but there are reasons...
Losing the Anchor. Alcorn called on a research analyst, Claude Robinson of Princeton, N.J., who flashed a series of charts to point up still other causes. For one, the party is losing the flourishing white-collar voters who should be its anchor; 52% voted Republican in 1954, 38% in 1958. And it is losing its appeal to youth and becoming the party of the older voter. In November Republicans got 49% of the age-50-and-over vote, 37% of the age-49-and-under...
Doing his bit to whoop the boys up for the annual damn-the-Democrats exercises at Lincoln's Birthday fund-raising ceremonies. Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn polled G.O.P. Senators on how many philippics they could unload at party rallies this year, learned to his mild horror that a bipartisan clerk had mailed one query astray. Bemused recipient of the inadvertent, fire-eating "Dear Frank" appeal: Utah's new Democrat Frank E. Moss...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16--Chairman Meade Alcorn has won the personal blessing of President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon and Gov.-elect Nelson A. Rockefeller for drastic moves to revitalize the Republican party after its disastrous Nov. 4 defeat. Alcorn, who presided over the worst licking the GOP has taken in years, ordinarily would be expected to bow out and let another man rebuild...
Notable Failures. Admitting defeat within four hours after the Eastern polling places had closed, Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn grimly promised that the campaign for the 1960 elections would "begin on November 5, 1958." From the Republican standpoint, it would have to. The 1958 elections proved that party organization work is a fulltime job, that last-minute campaign efforts are not enough. President Eisenhower, entering the campaign in its last weeks, notably failed-as he had failed in 1954-to reverse the Democratic trends in California, West Virginia, Kansas, Iowa and Colorado (and Ike's own Pennsylvania Congressman, Republican...