If the popularity polls were to be accepted at face value, the Republicans would seem to have little to do except go through the motion of renominating the man in the White House and then settle back to await the second Eisenhower landslide. But the more realistic Republican professionals and some political news-analysts are by no means certain that the election is in the bag.
When states with big electoral votes, such as New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan, are under Democratic Governors, cautious observers are disinclined to make long-range predictions. With a GOP-conceded defection in the Farm Belt and small but intense minorities of anti-Eisenhower Republicans in most states, the positive pre-Convention prophecy has little value. These conditions do, however, serve to inspire the hard-working, ground-level politicians of both parties to seek accurate information concerning every state where the two-party system is operative.
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