Word: farming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pollster Sam Lubell, while recognizing the genuine need for G.O.P. worry about the farm vote, also found cause for Republican cheer. Wrote he: "Strong as the uprising is against the Republicans in the rural Midwest, much of its force is being blunted by two feelings. One is a deep sense of gratitude to President Eisenhower for ending the Korean war. The other is a widespread dislike of Adlai Stevenson among farmers, and criticism for his divorce . . . In 1952 among several thousand voters I interviewed, only about a dozen brought up Stevenson's divorce as their reason for voting against...
...Long, Steep Climb. With such factors in mind-plus the fact that even in the Midwest the farm vote is less than 20% of the total-Adlai Stevenson's big farm push seemed to be winning back only Missouri (where his prospects look good) and Oklahoma (where he. appears to have a decided edge), along with a chance for Minnesota. Given those three and the South (although Florida and border-state Kentucky cannot be considered solid for the Democrats), Stevenson would still fall considerably short of the necessary 266 electoral votes...
...looked especially important to the political swarms that were heading its way. That the Stevenson campaign still faced a steep uphill climb was evidenced by last week's Gallup poll, showing Ike still ahead of Adlai by 52% to 41%, with 7% undecided. For all the talk of farm revolt and G.O.P. disaster, Adlai Stevenson had not yet gained a single percentage point on Dwight Eisenhower since the poll published two weeks earlier...
...case for the Administration's farm program as detailed by President Eisenhower in Peoria...
...almost ten years, as farmers' costs have gone up, year after year, farm prices have gone down. There are two exceptions when prices went up. One was the tragic year when the Korean battlefields provided the kind of market that no one wants. The other is this year. And this year there...