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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 4, 1952. The Democratic ticket of general Dwight D. Eisenhower and Minnesota senator Hubert Humphrey defeated the Republican ticket of Ohio senator Robert Taft Sr. and California senator Richard Nixon in a landslide victory, becoming the third Democratic president in 20 years. This was the first election since 1928 without an incumbent president on the ballot.
The Republican nomination was primarily contested by Taft, a conservative senator, and Earl Warren, the moderate Republican governor of California. Despite the support of Thomas E. Dewey and other party leaders, Warren narrowly lost to Taft at the 1952 Republican National Convention. Taft selected youthful California Senator Richard Nixon as his running mate in a conciliatory gesture to moderate Republicans. Eisenhower, a general, widely popular for his leadership in World War II, emerged victorious on the first presidential ballot of the 1952 Democratic National Convention by defeating overwhelmingly Georgia Senator Richard Russell Jr., and other more minor candidates. Eisenhower's candidacy was a result of a 7-year long campaign to draft him by the Democratic Party, with Taft's surprise victory of the Republican nomination motivating him to join the Democrats. In the first televised presidential campaign, Eisenhower was charismatic and was perceived as possessing an unimpeachable reputation, in sharp contrast to Taft.[4]
Republicans attacked President Harry S. Truman's handling of the Korean War and the broader Cold War, alleging Soviet spies infiltrated the U.S. government. Democrats faulted Taft for his opposition to the New Deal, and his perceived isolationistic policies in the face of communist pressure. Eisenhower tried to separate himself from the unpopular Truman administration. Instead, he campaigned on the popularity of the New Deal and stoked fears of another Great Depression under a Republican administration.
Eisenhower retained his enormous popularity from the war, as was seen in his campaign slogan, "I Like Ike". Eisenhower's public support, along with Taft's perceived extremism, allowed him to win comfortably with 65.32% of the popular vote and carry every state outside of Vermont and Ohio; he even managed to carry Maine, a state which had voted for Republicans since the Civil War with the exception of 1912. Eisenhower received over 40 million votes, which at the time was the highest popular vote total a presidential candidate had received, surpassing Franklin D. Roosevelt's record in 1936. Eisenhower's victory marked twenty straight years of Democratic control of the Presidency since Roosevelt's victory in 1932.
- ^ "Voter Turnout in Presidential Elections". The American Presidency Project. UC Santa Barbara.
- ^ Sabato, Larry; Ernst, Howard (2006). "Presidential Election 1952". Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections. Facts on File. p. 354. ISBN 9781438109947. Retrieved November 16, 2016.
Eisenhower, born in Texas, considered a resident of New York, and headquartered at the time in Paris, finally decided to run for the Republican nomination....
- ^ "The Presidents". uselectionatlas.org. David Leip. Retrieved January 3, 2009.
- ^ Davies, James C. (1954). "Charisma in the 1952 Campaign". American Political Science Review. 48 (4): 1083–1102. doi:10.2307/1951012. JSTOR 1951012.
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