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...Oregon, Deweymen assessed the damage done by Stassen's four-day visit, began wondering whether their man should not come out for a speech before the May 21 primary. In Wisconsin, which Dewey had confidently neglected, Stassen had suddenly forged ahead, was now conceded to hold the lead. Belatedly, Dewey strategists noticed that their slate in the April 6 primary lacked outstanding names. Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, the state's most potent vote-getter, who had helped Dewey defeat Willkie in the 1944 primary, had deserted to head the Mac-Arthur forces. Sparked by Senator Joe McCarthy...
...Deweymen went right to work. Campaign Manager Herbert Brownell buttonholed Republican politicos in Concord. Dewey's agricultural adviser, Dr. E. W. Sheets, tromped the snowbound countryside talking politics to the farmers. Though Brownell conceded most of the younger GOPsters and the political outs to Candidate Stassen, he figured the Dewey-minded ins and old guardsmen would be more than enough to swing the trick...
...strategy seemed to be paying off. Before the week was out, Governor Charles M. Dale and Manchester's Joseph E. Geisel, an early Eisenhower organizer, had both come out for Dewey. Deweymen talked confidently of winning at least five of New Hampshire's eight convention delegates, hoped to make a clean sweep...
Jubilance. Such had been Eisenhower's edge in the presidential race that all other candidates of both parties were jubilant. Candidate Stassen was encouraged enough to challenge Bob Taft in his own Ohio primary. Deweymen, who had privately feared Eisenhower more than any other rival, breathed relief and renewed confidence. So did Taftmen, more secure than ever in the affections of the party regulars...
...that was the score. In the time that was left, what could Franklin Roosevelt do to reverse the trend? To some it seemed that up until now he had been hoping to continue the New Deal's twelve-year campaign against Herbert Hoover (see cuts). The Deweymen looked over their case" again & again, pondering the probable points of the Roosevelt attack. What, for instance, were the solid arguments for their man-arguments persuasive to independent voters...