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Certainly, Ike made vast headway in his sincere (and highly feasible) promises to maintain and extend the New Deal's gains and to revive faith in progress through free enterprise. But he did not win the campaign on economic issues...
...struggle was mirrored in millions of individual voters whom the pollsters classified as "undecided." Their indecision was not necessarily based on a supposition that the two parties had fought to a draw on the issues. Rather, one party had made headway on one set of issues, the other party on another set. The doubt arises over which set will most influence the voters...
...Republicans have made headway with their case that Ike Eisenhower is better equipped to deal with the Korean war, the Russians and the problem of Communists in Government. The Democrats have made headway with their case that the party of Franklin Roosevelt...
Republicans, he said, have been making headway in gaining the support of the emerging business and industrial classes. "Many of these persons were Dixiecrats in 1948. Now they are taking the next step into the Republican party...
...Picture. More & more, voters are aware that the U.S. long-run position in the world has deteriorated and is in grave danger of further deterioration, especially in Asia and the Middle East. The Korean deadlock is a symbol of the Administration's inability to make real headway in resolving the world crisis. An Administration which will not admit its past calamitous mistakes (e.g., China) cannot set vigorously about retrieving those mistakes...