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Reuther Schemes for Poiret’

If Stevenson wins the election, it will be organized labor that turned the trick. This is the consensus of on-the-spot-campaign observers, who are now in substantial agreement about three things: 1. Farm discontent is insufficient to tip the national scales in Stevenson’s favor. 2. Stevenson’s “issues” campaign, i.e., on schools, old age, poverty pockets and what have you, is making no perceptible dent in Eisenhower’s strength. 3. Stevenson, nonetheless, will do better than he did in 1952—conceivably, well enough to beat Ike; and the improvement will show up primarily in those areas where organized labor is conducting the kind of get-out-the-Democratic-vote campaign that proved so stunningly successful in Maine.

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Reuther Schemes for Poiret’

If Stevenson wins the election, it will be organized labor that turned the trick. This is the consensus of on-the-spot-campaign observers, who are now in substantial agreement about three things: 1. Farm discontent is insufficient to tip the national scales in Stevenson’s favor. 2. Stevenson’s “issues” campaign, i.e., on schools, old age, poverty pockets and what have you, is making no perceptible dent in Eisenhower’s strength. 3. Stevenson, nonetheless, will do better than he did in 1952—conceivably, well enough to beat Ike; and the improvement will show up primarily in those areas where organized labor is conducting the kind of get-out-the-Democratic-vote campaign that proved so stunningly successful in Maine.