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US Democrats - Adlai Stevenson 1956

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  • Completely irrelevant to anything before me, I live minutes away from Libertyville and he has founded one of the richest high schools in the area. My school hates them, haha.

  • Stevenson was very slow to embrace the medium of television, as a way of campaigning. It shows here, in his wooden, self-conscious delivery. Ike was so popular though, that Stevenson didn't have a ghost of a chance in 56 anyway.

  • He was an intellectual at heart, not a populist farmer "man of the people." Even then, intellect was something of a liability in national electoral politics.

    Of course, Stevenson did the country a favor telling Kruschev where to stick it.

  • Stevenson was a liberal and won the South Ike was a Republican and won the Blue states. Times have changed

  • No politicians were good at television in those days, and Gov. Stevenson in particular didn't have much use for it. The grocery bags were props stuffed with paper. Libertyville was not a typical small town, but a very wealthy enclave north of Chicago. Note the big cars parked on the street. Stevenson had money, but lived very modestly. the home is actually pretty small.

  • Adlai Stevenson was as wooden as a Cigar Store Indian.

  • This was en is not the way to win an election!!

  • that was electrifying

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