Of all the primaries on the calendar before convention time, Wisconsin's was the one that was the closest thing to a pollster's dream of the perfect test of November. Of Wisconsin's 2,200,000 voters, some 58% live in and around cities, and the 42% rural population ranges from Cadillac-owning dairy farmers to the hard-pressed hog raisers and cattlemen along the Mississippi River and in the southwest. Even better, there was only one Democrat, Estes Kefauver, running against one Republican, Ike Eisenhower (although Ike had a nuisance challenge for the nomination from Ashland's fiery McCarthyite editor, John B. Chappie).
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