Posted on 08/20/2020 7:06:31 PM PDT by rintintin
Taft/MacArthur would’ve beaten Stevenson in ‘52. Taft still had the advantage of 2 decades of uninterrupted control by the Dems (party fatigue) and an extremely unpopular Truman hurting the ticket. One reason Ike had to ponder running as a Dem would’ve been a losing proposition in 1952 (Hoover bolted the Dems in 1920 for the same reason).
A LOT of working people didn’t mind Taft-Hartley, if you just told them the provisions. /They just were told the name was bad.
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