Word: precampaign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diefenbaker's crowd-compelling, headline-snaring campaign has seemingly given his Tories a running start to victory. The latest precampaign Gallup poll rated them the favorites of 50% of the voters who had made up their minds, v. 35% for the Liberals, 15% for the two minor parties...
...last week any precampaign hopes that President Eisenhower could separate himself from Candidate Eisenhower dissolved in the crisp, electric, fall air. Under calculated and sustained personal attack from Adlai Stevenson (see below), Ike last week used the forum of his press conference for jab after jab at his Democratic opponent. Then, within 24 hours, he delivered two roundhouse punches: the White House released two documents berating Stevenson for his stand on H-bomb testing and the draft...
...Physical Viewpoint. From Miami, Kefauver headed west to Omaha to fulfill a precampaign promise to deliver a non-political speech to the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs. As befitted a man with high hope of capturing Nebraska's twelve Democratic Convention votes, he improved the shining hour by showing up for a luncheon meeting of the local Democratic Central Committee. Afterward he boarded a plane for New Jersey, where five more grueling days of campaigning awaited...
...time most of the weak spots on Republican tickets came to Ike's attention last year, it was too late to do anything about them. Last week from the White House came evidence that the President is deepening his interest in his party's precampaign jockeying and is taking an early lead in molding the Republican line-up for 1956. To a recent White House stag breakfast, Ike summoned Arthur B. Langlie, three-term governor of Washington. More than a year ago, 54-year-old Governor Langlie announced that he would not run for a fourth term. After...