 | GenghisTheHun (167)
12/14/2005 | This was not suprising at all, and McCarthy had nothing to do with it. We were in a war with 50,000 dead. Ike said, "If elected, I shall go to Korea." That was it, ladies and gentlemen. "Church was out."
Stevenson was a poor wimpy candidate and the old anti-Black segregationist Sparkman of Alabama really didn't add much to the ticket.
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 | abichara (60)
03/09/2005 | Not really much of a surprise. Eisenhower was a very popular figure and people were simply tired of having the Democratic party in power for 20 years. Truman was heavily burdened with the Korean War, which wasn't very popular at all. Many saw him at the point as very uneffective and believed that Stevenson would be much the same. At the end of the day, it was Eisenhower's promise to go to Korea and end the war which won that election. It also helped that Stevenson, while he was highly intelligent, simply didn't make a connection with the American people; he was seen as aloof. People wanted a hero and they saw those qualities in Eisenhower.
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 | Redoedo (39)
09/06/2004 | Not really surprising, given that Eisenhower was generally well-respected by both Democrats and Republicans and the majority of Americans were ready for a change after two decades of Democratic rule.
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