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To: Andrew N. Cothran who wrote (267558)	9/10/2008 4:47:27 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 794501

<But Illinois was crazy for Adlai Stevenson too and you remember what happened to him when Ike came along.> While President Eisenhower suffered heart problems, the economy enjoyed robust health. Stevenson's hopes for victory were dashed when, in October, President Eisenhower's doctors gave him a clean bill of health and the Suez and Hungary crises erupted simultaneously. The public was not convinced that a change in leadership was needed, and Stevenson lost his second bid for the presidency, winning only 73 electoral votes in the 1956 presidential election.