Word: democratizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true. The U.S. voter was far from apathetic, a fact reflected by record registration in many states. He seemed interested-but strangely quiet. There were remarkably few campaign buttons and stickers, remarkably few barroom arguments, remarkably few impassioned doorbell ringers. In the presidential race between Republican Dwight Eisenhower and Democrat Adlai Stevenson, the strange atmosphere of quiet wrapped up the Republicans' secret hopes for an unprecedented landslide; it held the Democrats' last hopes for upsetting the form charts. The quiet was, in fact, about the only unfathomed factor of the 1956 campaign; every other index pointed to Eisenhower...
California: Democratic organization has improved since 1952, but Ike is still popular enough to win. Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel is hard pressed by Democrat Richard Richards, but ahead...
Colorado: Even retiring Democratic Governor Ed Johnson flatly predicts Eisenhower. Ex-Governor Dan Thornton leads Democrat John Carroll for the Senate...
Idaho: Eisenhower easily. Old Guard Senator Herman Welker is challenged by Democrat Frank Church - but Church is hurt, and is likely to be beaten, by write-in competition from left-wing Democrat Glen Taylor, beaten in the primary but still a threat to some 5,000 Church votes...
...totals included seven Faculty members in the Humanities for Eisenhower campared to 38 for Stevenson, and in the Social Sciences 14 were for the President and 35 for Stevenson. The Democrat also led in the Natural Sciences, by a margin of 27 to 14. Twenty-seven ballots for Eisenhower and 52 for Stevenson were merely marked "Arts and Sciences," with no breakdown by areas...