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When clerks began to tabulate the vote, they discovered what the voters had written: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Eisonhauer, Eausonhower, Isenhower, Eneshower, Izenour, Ikenhoner, Ike. As the returns came in, politicians across the U.S. listened in amazement. This week the unofficial count gave Ike 106,946 write-in votes to 128,605 for Favorite Son Stassen, whose name was printed on the ballot* and listed on the voting machines. While Stassen got more votes than any other candidate, the total write-in vote was greater than his. This blow in his home state, after he ran a poor third...
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...
...There were other considerable write-in votes, but all were dwarfed by Ike's total. Bob Taft had 24,019. On the Democratic side, Favorite Son Hubert Humphrey, a Truman stand-in whose name was printed on the ballot, polled 99,199 votes, while Estes Kefauver's name was written in 19,868 times and Harry Truman...
...Acting Mayor Joseph V. McKee of New York polled 232,501 write-in votes after a vigorous press campaign against Tammany Hall. But Tammanyite John P. O'Brien was elected with 1,056,115 votes. In 1944, Tom Dewey received 146,706 write-ins in the Pennsylvania presidential primary, after a long, well-organized campaign in a primary with no names printed on the ballot...
...ballot for Governor Warren in the coming primary." Then the 30 Warren-pledged delegates announced that they would switch to Ike if Warren could not get the nomination. "Warren-Eisenhower" clubs sprang up. Pro-Ike newspapers urged a vote for the California governor, carefully pointed out that write-in votes would not be counted in Wisconsin...