Election Slogan Quotes
Coughlin was an early and valued supporter of FDR, but after Roosevelt’s election the priest became dissatisfied that Roosevelt was not radical enough. FDR also wanted to distance himself from many of the Fascist and Socialist ideas of Coughlin and especially his racism and anti-Semitism. Coughlin then flip-flopped and became a vicious Roosevelt Critic. Few realize that he ever supported Roosevelt.
She was writing regarding the first use of television in a presidential campaign and the first time the public had ever been exposed to spot political ads. The practice, innovated in the Eisenhower campaign of 1952, was thought of as playing to the lowest element of the electorate’s psyche—selling politicians as if they were breakfast cereal or soap flakes. However, the technique worked incredibly well electing Eisenhower over Stephenson. Mannes wrote this after the election commenting on what politics had become.
