1952: Case Liked Ike, But Not Reserve
In an informal vote conducted by the Reserve Tribune, students were polled at the Eldred and Haydn Hall snack bars and the University Cafeteria. Democrat Adlai Stevenson received 164 votes, while Republican Dwight Eisenhower received 111. Case’s mock political convention went for Eisenhower. The then all-male Case undergraduate student body recruited faculty wives, college secretaries, and Lake Erie College students to serve as convention secretaries.
Women students show their support for the presidential candidates: Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson.
Case Alumnus' May 1952 issue covered the Mock Political Convention - the parade, the speeches, the votes - reporting that 800 students participated.
Students making signs for the Mock Political Convention (below).
More student support for Adlai Stevenson and the Democrats (below).
| Ohio Popular Vote | National Popular Vote | Electoral Vote |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) 2,100,391 (56.8%) Adlai E. Stevenson (D) 1,600,367 (43.2%) | Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) 33,936,137 (55.13%) Adlai E. Stevenson (D) 27,314,669 (44.38%) Vincent Hallinan (Progressive) 140,416 (0.23%) Stuart Hamblen (Prohibition) 73,413 (0.12%) | Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) 442 Adlai E. Stevenson (D) 89 |
Information was compiled by staff of the Case Western Reserve University Archives, September 2004.
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- String of Red and White Bunting
- WRU women students support Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Two WRU women students holding sign supporting Democrats
- WRU women students support Eisenhower & Stevenson
- Students making signs for Case Mock Political Convention
- Mock Political Convention page from the Case Alumnus
- Mock Political Convention page from the Case Alumnus
