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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...
...That's Great." Local Eisenhower supporters, without the help of the national organization, campaigned for write-ins, too. The result: a clear-cut Taft victory. He got 76,556 write-in votes to 61,592 for Ike. Stassen, whose name was printed on the ballot, trailed with 53,444. Nebraska's 18 delegates were not necessarily bound to follow the preference vote, but the best estimate was that 16 would vote for Taft, one for Ike, with one uncommitted. Said Taft, when he got the news from Nebraska: "Gee, that's great...
Four years ago this month, Harold E. Stassen was the one man to beat for the Republican presidential nomination. The former Minnesota governor had swept to significant primary victories in Wisconsin and Nebraska, walloping Dewey, Taft, MacArthur, Warren and any others who got in his way. His supporters had a slogan: "No surpassin' Harold Stassen...
Dewey eventually exploded the 1948 Stassen balloon. This year the surpassin' came earlier. On leave from his job as president of the University of Pennsylvania, Stassen has been rolling through primary states, winding up at dead ends. In New Hampshire, he ran a poor third behind Eisenhower and Taft. In his own Minnesota, where his was the only name on the ballot, the total write-in vote for other candidates outnumbered his Xs. His name was on the ballot in Nebraska but he was third, behind write-in votes...
From the beginning of his campaign, it has been hard to see where Stassen thought he was going or what he was trying to prove. He had no chance for the nomination, and he has aroused the ire of all other Republican factions...