What Attracted Voters To Eisenhower In The Presidential Election Of 1952?

[nicoletalbot]

What attracted voters to Eisenhower in the presidential election of 1952?

[Fibonacci]

http://www.kennesaw.edu/pols/3380/pres/1952.html

http://millercenter.org/president/eisenhower/essays/biography/3

http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Eisenhower_(Election_1952)

These are just three of many websites that will provide you with the information you need to answer the question.

[Mosaic]

It is an open secret, kept off the www media, that Ike pledged to concern himself with the issue of world peace, because he believed totally that everyone should be empowered to achieve their personal potential.

[Canary42]

The catchy sound-bite (although they weren't called that in those far off days) of "I like Ike".

[jno]

they were called slogans, which is good enough.

He was a war leader, a moderate, and better on TV than his opponent (Stevenson was disdained as an egghead).

[jno]

didn't Truman ask him to run?

[Peter Pedant]

Nicole you really should read your set text for this.

anyway I agree with DocS

Truman was unpopular but not yet considered the 'hopeless incompetent' he is looked on, now

Adlai Stevenson (Eggheads of the world unite: you can only lose your brains) has the wrong image. pointy headed intellectual

and there was a long tradition in American politics that presidential candidates had some military background, such as Washington, The hero of Tippicanoe - who ever that one was, Burr ? he died of acold caught at Inauguration and Teddy Roosevelt, and Grant

[jno]

48 and again in 51, I think, but wanted him as a Democrat

[jno]

Tippecanoe and Tyler too... Harrison, I think, Burr never made it

[FredPuli43]

"Tippecanoe and Tyler too!" PP. That was William Harrison, using the least comprehensible slogan (to outsiders) in any American presidential election. If I recall aright , the battle at Tippecanoe was a pathetic embarrassing affair, but since when has fact got in the ,way of electioneering ?

[jno]

I think Truman's quite highly regarded now, PP.

7th overall in the "rankings"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_rankings_of_Presidents_of_the_United_States