Word: stassen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ohio Senator had staged one of his fighting tours, traveling 2,387 miles, visiting 58 counties, making 125 speeches to 150,000 people. The campaign paid off. Wisconsin Republicans gave him 314,224 votes to 260,704 for California's Governor Earl Warren and 169,026 for Harold Stassen. Hard-working Bob Taft swept the rural districts, the villages and the small towns, carried seven of the state's ten congressional districts, picked up 24 delegates to the Republican National Convention. The three districts and six delegates he lost to Earl Warren were in and around two cities...
Important Round. Taft's opponents were quick to point out that 1) he wasn't up against his real opposition, Ike Eisenhower, in Wisconsin, and 2) he didn't get a majority of the votes cast. But he outdistanced a campaigning Warren and a campaigning Stassen, whose forces tried to woo Eisenhower votes. It was an important political round for Taft...
Many politicians and pundits thought this would be a signal for the Ikemen in Washington to set up write-in campaigns against Stassen in Nebraska April 1 (where a Taft write-in movement is under way), against Taft and Stassen in Illinois April 8, and in West Virginia on May 13. But Eisenhower headquarters seemed way behind their candidate's popular strength. This week Eisenhower supporters in Nebraska started a write-in campaign, but complained that they had not received authorization or money from national headquarters...
...Wisconsin record: In 1940, Arthur Vandenberg's candidacy faded after Tom Dewey beat him 2-1. In 1944, Wendell Willkie withdrew as a candidate after he ran behind Dewey, Stassen and General MacArthur. In 1948, MacArthur's Stock as a candidate fell after Stassen beat...
...Wisconsin's Republican presidential primary on April 1 seemed likely to be cut & dried. By all the signs, Bob Taft, backed by Wisconsin G.O.P. Boss Tom Coleman and National Committeeman Cyrus Philipp, was going to be a shoo-in over California's Governor Earl Warren and Harold Stassen. But after Ike Eisenhower's great day in next-door Minnesota, a slogan began to sweep across Wisconsin: "A vote for Warren is a vote for Eisenhower...