The 1952 U.S. presidential election was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson. Eisenhower won 55. 18% of the popular vote, carrying every state outside of the South. The Democratic Party won the presidency for the first time since 1932.
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The 1952 U.S. presidential election was the 42nd quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 4, 1952. Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower won a landslide victory over Democrat Adlai Stevenson. The Republican nomination was primarily contested by Eisenhower, a general who was widely popular for his leadership in World War II, and conservative Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Eisenhower won 55. 18% of the popular vote, carrying every state outside of the South, as well as Florida, Virginia and Tennessee, states that had almost always voted for Democrats since the end of Reconstruction. Democrats faulted Eisenhower for failing to condemn Republican Senator Joe McCarthy and other reactionary Republicans who they alleged had engaged in reckless and unwarranted attacks. Stevenson tried to separate himself from the unpopular Truman administration, instead campaigning on the popularity of the New Deal and stoking fears of another Great Depression under a Republican administration. The moderates were concerned with ending the Republicans’ losing streak in presidential elections; they felt that the personally popular Eisenhower had the best chance of beating the Democrats. Republicans attacked Truman’s handling of the Korean War and the broader Cold War, and alleged that Soviet spies had infiltrated the U. S. government. The GOP had been out of power for 20 years, and the sentiment that a proper two-party system needed to be reestablished was strong; it was also felt that a Republican Party in control of the White House would have more incentive to rein in unpopular demagogues such as Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy.
The Midwest was a bastion of conservatism and isolationist sentiment, dislike of Europeans, in particular Great Britain, was common, and there was a widespread feeling that the British manipulated US foreign policy and were eager to kowtow to the Soviet Union. The moderate Eastern Republicans were led by New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the party’s presidential nominee in 1944 and 1948. The conservative Republicans, led by Taft, were based in the Midwest and parts of the southern states, and included Governor Earl Warren of California, who appealed to Western delegates and independent voters. Eisenhower narrowly prevailed over Taft at the 1952 Republican National Convention with Richard Nixon, a young senator from California, as his running mate. Eisenhower scored a major victory in the New Hampshire primary, when his supporters wrote his name onto the ballot in the primary, giving him an upset victory over the conservative Taft. However, there was no clear winner from the primaries until the Republican Convention, when the primaries were fairly evenly divided between the two candidates. The Republicans also won control of both houses of Congress, and Eisenhower was re-elected with a majority of the votes in the House of Representatives. The Democrats won the Senate and the House, but lost the Senate. The Democratic Party won the presidency for the first time since 1932, ending a string of Democratic Party wins that stretched back to 1932. The election was also the last time the Republican Party had been in power for more than 20 years.
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