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...There is only one question," wrote Columnists Joseph & Stewart Alsop after President Truman's surprise victory in 1948, "on which professional politicians, polltakers, political reporters and other wiseacres and prognosticators can any longer speak with much authority. That is how they want their crow cooked...
With the stringy taste of 1948's crow still in their mouths, the brothers Alsop and many another pundit had determined not to eat it again over last week's New Hampshire primaries. Out-of-state correspondents had swarmed all over New Hampshire in an unprecedented invasion, finding out how the ordinary voters felt-one great omission in 1948. By Election Day, many correspondents felt that they had measured the pulse pretty well, and they began to sidle toward the steam table where the crow was kept warm...
Inside Dope. Stewart Alsop moved ahead of all the rest, and openly bid for the covered dish on the table. He had talked to National Committeeman Emmet Kelley, a Truman big wheel in New Hampshire, who predicted "a Truman landslide." Alsop predicted one, too, gave Kefauver an "outside chance" of "capturing just one delegate." One reason for that, Alsop said, was that Kefauver had "incautiously" transgressed "one of the great, built-in rules of American politics . . . that you simply do not challenge an incumbent President in your own party...
...told that Eisenhower is a Democrat when it comes to foreign policy. Then with Ike as President, Dean Acheson could stay right on as Secretary of State. Eisenhower has been hand-picked for us by the professional left wing (Drew Pearson, Joseph Alsop, Marquis Childs, et al.), and he has received the kiss of death from Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon...
...JOSEPH ALSOP Washington...