Word: electioneering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE second function of a newsmagazine is to know what the news means-and this requires not off-the-cuff punditry but the gathering of more news. Last week TIME correspondents who had covered the campaign went back on the road, dug deep into the precinct facts which gave meaning...
Across the U.S. the politicians and pundits studied the tea leaves of the 1958 elections and forecast the national future. If there was a consensus, it was that the nation has veered to the left after six years of steering down the middle of the road. Yet closer, subsurface examination...
Buried deep in the rubble of Republican defeat lay the causes of Democratic victory-a victory which will shape U.S. policies and politics for the next two years. The causes and effects of Election Year 1958:
As a result, the Dwight Eisenhower who led the Republican Party to power in 1952 saw the G.O.P. sink to its lowest ebb (see map) in decades this year. And perhaps the most significant effect of the 1958 election was that for all practical purposes, it ended the Eisenhower Crusade...
The President of the U.S. went into his first post-election press conference the morning after Election Day with his chin high and a jaunty half-smile on his lips, but when he left half an hour later, he was drawn, grey, visibly weary. Veteran White House reporters had never...