Many of you who read Ike’s Anvil regularly stay up-to-date on the minute details of everyday campaign activities: he tweeted this, she said that, they had this for dinner– and here’s how it all impacts the overall election. However, most people don’t follow politics like a political scientist should. We have lives for Pete’s sake. […]
Author: Laen
Inside Politics’ spring DC trip was quite the whirlwind of activity! We arrived in the afternoon on Sunday and had short individual meetings with EI Fellow Kasey Pipes to discuss our projects’ progress. While not meeting with Kasey, we strolled around DC, getting a feel for the city. Once we were all done with our […]
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Draft Ike!
On February 8 in 1952, close to 25,000 people assembled at New York City’s Madison Square Garden rallying around Dwight Eisenhower’s political aspirations. This event was an extension of the “Draft Ike” movement, which had been appearing on both Democratic and Republican lines across the nation since the 1948 election. Eisenhower deflected any efforts to […]
