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...Happy though the retirement of Ecton, Kem, and Cain is, this windfall is irrelevant to the effect of McCarthyism and its practitioners on areas out of their respective states. McCarthy's presence in Connecticut, for instance, is credited in great part with the finality of Benton's defeat. McCarthyism's effect is undoubtedly stronger in areas like Connecticut, Massachusetts, and cities whose electorate is especially Jittery over Communism that it is in Washington, the scene of Cain's defeat, whose population is more liberal. And it was these Jittery voters who deprived Stevenson of votes the Democratic Party needed...
...jumped into a lead of 240,000 to 217,000; at the two-thirds mark Ike was piling up a 57% majority (v. Tom Dewey's bare 50% in 1948). From there on, the Republican Connecticut sweep was swift and devastating. At 9:30, Democratic Senator Bill Benton conceded the victory of Republican William Purtell and gloomily predicted a nationwide victory for Ike. Minutes later. Democrat A. A. Ribicoff conceded to Republican Prescott Bush in Connecticut's other Senate race...
...Connecticut, Republicans held one seat and picked up another. Recently appointed Senator William A. Purtell, a Hartford manufacturer, ran so far ahead of Senator William Benton, a onetime adman, that Benton conceded three hours after the polls closed. In the race for the second Senate seat (a four-year term to replace the late Brien McMahon), Prescott Bush, member of the same Wall Street brokerage firm as Averell Harriman, beat Representative Abraham Ribicoff, the best Democratic vote-getter in the state...
...CONNECTICUT, two Senate seats will be filled and the Republicans have a chance to take both. Republican Senator William Purtell, who was appointed to fill the late Brien McMahon's seat until the election, is running against Democratic Senator William Benton. Purtell is ahead. For the remainder of McMahon's term (four years), Democratic Representative A. A. Ribicoff and Republican Prescott Bush are in a neck & neck race...
...presidential race cannot be separated from the startlingly close senatorial contests. Expert Hartford observers are predicting that whichever presidential candidate takes the state will carry in either Purtell or Benton with him. In 1948 Dewey took the state with but 1,000 more than Truman and Wallace combined. This year the Progressive threat is negligible, and the state is basking in the sunny prosperity given to its factories by defense contracts. Unemployment is non-existent. Furthermore, Stevenson has an appeal to the state's comparatively-high number of college graduates that Truman lacked. It's going to be tight...