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Voters tended to elect Republicans who resemble Democrats, and Democrats who resemble Republicans. New Jersey's liberal Republican Clifford Case and Delaware's conservative Democrat Allen Frear are examples of this trend. Exceptional were the victories of Illinois' Paul Douglas and Oregon's Richard Neuberger in fights where there was a vast ideological difference between the candidates. Studying the returns, Political Analyst Samuel Lubell concluded that candidates are try ing harder than ever to find and adjust to the central sentiments of their constituencies. If they continue to succeed, as they did in 1954. there...
Democratic incumbent Senator Frear defeated his Republican rival Warburton by more than 15,000 votes...
DELAWARE. Republican Candidate Herbert Warburton is a good Eisenhower man, voted faithfully with the Administration while in the House. Incumbent Senator J. Allen Frear is a Southern-type Democrat. The school-segregation issue has hurt Warburton; so have low farm prices, especially in broilers. Frear probably leads in a close race...
...purest fancy: "If it becomes necessary for the governor of this state and its U.S. Senators, as they have expressed it to me, to lead these Negro children by the hand, after a decree of this court, into the school, they will do so." Within a few hours, both Frear and Republican Senator John Williams denied that they had authorized Attorney General Young to promise their hands...
Young explained that his statement had been merely "symbolic." Even then, he was not quite right; it was the Frear-Williams reaction that was symbolic in Delaware...