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Where the two campaigns diverged was on the issue of positive thinking. Republican Kyl bore down hard on Eisenhower's peace and prosperity, offered his own constructive solutions to the farm scandal (e.g., an acreage-retirement plan, which would pay the farmer a bushel of surplus corn for every bushel taken out of production). Gilmour stuck doggedly to the Benson issue. Said Farmer John Augustine, a Democrat: "Gilmour made a mistake in running against a straw man. He didn't have a positive thing...