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The Stevenson Tailspin

As the Presidential campaign moves into its last week, the feeling is increasing among political observers in the nation’s capital that Eisenhower’s victory will be of landslide proportions, possibly bigger than in 1952. This isn’t being written or said out loud—naturally. The horrors of 1948 are not so easily forgotten. But it is being thought with this one reservation: that no one can ever be sure that the potential electorate’s preferences (which now seem definitely pro-Eisenhower) are those of the group that will actually do the voting on election day.

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The Stevenson Tailspin

As the Presidential campaign moves into its last week, the feeling is increasing among political observers in the nation’s capital that Eisenhower’s victory will be of landslide proportions, possibly bigger than in 1952. This isn’t being written or said out loud—naturally. The horrors of 1948 are not so easily forgotten. But it is being thought with this one reservation: that no one can ever be sure that the potential electorate’s preferences (which now seem definitely pro-Eisenhower) are those of the group that will actually do the voting on election day.