This has been their MO since 1952.
Speaking about 1952, I remember that year well, and in the election. Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson, a man whom the Democrats claimed was such an intellectual. I was never inpressed by Adlai, even when I was 11 years old.
My Dad had been a Democrat, and in 1952 he voted for Ike. A month later my Dad died unexpectedly, and he was never able to see Eisenhower inaugurated.