>Someone once remarked to Stevenson, who had a reputation as a "pointhead" intellectual aloof from Main Street, "But Governor, you've got all of America's best and brightest behind you." He replied "I can't win with only the best and brightest!"
surprised to see how red New England was in those days
>>17280817Eisenhower was a moderate Republican.
>>17280817Different time, Ike was a national hero who stood above partisan politics. He mostly let Nixon do the dirty work in the trenches. Also New England didn't really become a solidly Democrat region until the 90s.
>>17279651Realistically was there any stopping eisenhower? He was a war hero and ttruman was immensly unpopular by 52, what could the democrats even do
>>17282001After 20 years it was inevitable. Truman was also never that popular since he was an accidental president and widely seen as a pawn of the Teddy Pendergast machine in St. Louis.
>>17282001>>17282009Much like Trump it had to be an outsider guy riding in on a white horse to save the Republican Party because the established names (the guys like Robert Taft, etc) weren't electable and lacked crossover appeal.
>>17282009he won in '48 because he campaigned hard in the Midwest (his backyard) and got the vote out there but he wasn't that popular with the urban ethnic industrial workers that comprised FDR's coalition and they mostly stayed home so Dewey dominated the Northeast
