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Before 1964, campaign ads were almost always positive. The opposing candidate or their policies were rarely mentioned. [20] In mid-June, John P. Roche, president of Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), a progressive advocacy group, wrote a letter to Bill Moyers, Johnson's press secretary, which said that Johnson was in a "wonderful strategic position", and that they could run a "savage ...
In 1960, WSLS presented the news with a different picture of the Democratic party on October 7 on the evening news. Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy and Republican rival Richard Nixon were both stumping in Virginia. Several key Democrats were backing up Kennedy, including Governor Lindsay Almond and state party chair Sidney Kellam.
By 1952, approximately 40 percent of Americans had a television, [19] and the 1952 election was the first presidential election in which television played an important role. [20] The Eisenhower campaign launched a series of television commercials titled "Eisenhower Answers America", [ 21 ] the first spot ad campaign by an American presidential ...
From March 8 to June 7, 1960, voters and members of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1960 Democratic National Convention through a series of caucuses, conventions, and primaries, partly for the purpose of nominating a candidate for President of the United States in the 1960 election.
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House Democrats need to flip just four seats to take the chamber’s majority in November, and super PACs are going all out on the airwaves in battleground districts, blasting Republicans over ...
The Democratic platform in 1960 was the longest yet. [8] They called for a loosening of tight economic policy: "We Democrats believe that the economy can and must grow at an average rate of 5 percent annually, almost twice as fast as our annual rate since 1953...As the first step in speeding economic growth, a Democratic president will put an end to the present high-interest-rate, tight-money ...