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...article on the Taft-Ike battle was restrained and informative, but I disagree wholeheartedly with one sentence: "Taftmen have very little basis for arguing that their man would have as good a chance to win the election as Eisenhower...
SOUTH DAKOTA-14. Some energy has been expended to make a favorite son out of Senator Karl Mundt. Taftmen, relying on Mundt, claim the state...
PENNSYLVANIA-70. Ikeman Senator Jim Duff has no more than 25. U.S. Senator Edward Martin, National Committeeman G. Mason Owlett and the rest of the Grundy organization are for Taft. State Chairman M. Harvey Taylor will stand pat with Duff for Ike. Taftmen at the moment are counting on only the ten sure Grundy delegates. Half the delegation will go with Governor John S. Fine, originally a Duffman but now friendly to Grundy. So far, Fine has remained coldly neutral. He has one of the biggest piles of chips in the game...
WISCONSIN-30. Taftmen have high hopes in Wisconsin, which elects its delegates by primary April 1. Taft Manager David Ingalls made his biggest breakthrough in August when he signed up Thomas E. Coleman of Madison, state G.O.P. leader. Taft himself will make a courthouse-steps campaign in Wisconsin, flanked by Wisconsin's own Senator Joe McCarthy. Wisconsin is as ticklish a problem for Ike as Oregon is for Taft. Reports TIME'S correspondent in Madison: "Some Republicans say Eisenhower would be foolish to make a late entry and risk a bad showing, but a dramatic late entry...
...TERRITORIES-21. Taftmen claim...