Abstract

Only Voters Like Him. Kefauver's Dilemma

This article presents information on Tennessee politician Estes Kefauver's mystery ability to get votes in the primary elections. And the most astonishing feature of this so-called mystery is that the majority of editors and analysts still persist in treating it as such. Perhaps they must follow this line, however, to preserve their professional pride, for before Minnesota they were almost unanimously of the firm and oft-voiced opinion that politician Adlai Stevenson had the Democratic Presidential nomination in the bag. Presumably going on the theory that nobody reads yesterday's forecasts, they are now just as unanimously, firmly and vocally of the opinion that Kefauver is not likely to receive' the Democratic nomination.