No matter how Oregon went, the returns would not cut much ice at the Philadelphia convention.
Ohio was the best proof of that. Though both Harold Stassen and Robert Taft immediately ran out their victory flags, the result of last week's Ohio primary was a flat standoff. Stassen had picked up only nine of 23 contested delegates—three fewer than he had said he would. Despite Taft's confident prediction that he would lose but one delegate, he had lost nine in his own home state.
Wrote New York Timesman James Reston: "One more 'victory' like this...
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