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...Labor convention instructed its 30-vote national convention delegation to switch to Stevenson as soon as released by Kefauver, who won their votes by upsetting Stevenson in Minnesota's March primary. And in Kefauver's home state of Tennessee, the state Democratic convention all but ran the Keef out of the ball park by refusing him even a favorite-son endorsement. Most likely to pick up the Tennessee votes: Stevenson...
County, "which has backed every presidential winner since 1896, gave Ike 15,129, the Keef 12,550." Yet I read in the papers that, in final returns in Vanderburgh County, 22,007 people chose Democratic ballots, and 17,752 chose Republican ballots...
...Democratic-predicted "farm revolt" vanished in a cloud of Republican ballots as President Eisenhower rolled up 353,938 votes to 242,422 for Senator Estes Kefauver, unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Vanderburgh County, which Indianans proudly claim has backed every presidential winner since 1896, gave Ike 15,129, the Keef...
...would seem that campaigning for the Presidency is degenerating into a contest for the "personality kid"-Ike's smile and Dick's boyish charm v. Keef's handshake and something homespun. However, there are some of us who live with grass, dandelions and pigweed, who drive second-hand Chevvies and read such unintellectual things as TIME magazine, but think that Stevenson is terrific and wish Kefauver would go stick his head in a bucket of the corn he's been slinging around the country. WILLIAM D. NICHOLSON New Castle...
...Home." Kefauver's Minnesota excursion, on the other hand, was a sorrowful experience. His advisers, a handful of Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party outcasts, handed him impossible schedules, spent most of their time squabbling among themselves about how their candidate should spend his time. One day the Keef wasted nearly two hours being driven around northwest Minneapolis while his guides looked for the offices of the Anoka Herald, a suburban newspaper. The motorcade headed in one direction, got lost, stopped at a filling station to inquire about the route, doubled back, stopped to ask again, charged off in still another...