Word: stevensonism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adlai Stevenson, by insisting on making a primary issue of stopping the H-bomb tests and eliminating the draft, is playing the Russians' game. Any time Moscow agrees with any of our policies, they cannot be beneficial...
...that Stevenson's grinning picture now hangs next to B. & K.'s in Russian homes...
...former Internal Revenue Commissioner T. Coleman Andrews was expected to cut significantly into Eisenhower's vote. But the third-party movement was a complete flop. Southern Negroes, on the other hand, turned strongly toward Eisenhower. Four Negro districts in Richmond had gone more than five to one for Stevenson in 1952; this time they stood more than two to one for Ike. In Atlanta, Negroes voted about four to one for Eisenhower. Negroes helped Eisenhower (and Republican Senatorial Candidate John Sherman Cooper) carry Kentucky by contributing to Ike's 34,000 plurality in Louisville. In winning Florida...
...Eisenhower avalanche was awesome in its force and fury. It crushed Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the entire Northeast, swept across Midwestern farmlands with a setback only in Missouri, shattered Democratic presidential hopes on the Pacific Coast and burst through traditional Democratic barriers in the South-where Ike carried Texas, Florida, Virginia, West Virginia. Kentucky. Tennessee and, unbelievably, Louisiana. It tore city after city-from Jersey City to Chicago to Montgomery-from the Democratic grasp. It cut across nearly all racial, religious, ethnic and economic lines. It gave Dwight Eisenhower a victory surging toward the 10 million plurality mark, with about...
...Adlai Stevenson had based his hopes on the Solid South, on farm discontent in the Midwest, on the labor vote in the cities of the industrial North and on his party's longtime hold on racial, religious and ethnic minorities. One after another, those hopes were smashed...