The last four years have been largely calm for America. President Eisenhower, while having seen a good deal of success and maintaining popularity, has not had a spotless Presidency. On one side, he has achieved a balanced budget, has signed the Interstate Highway Act, created the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and has ushered in a new robust foreign policy. However, at the same time, he has been criticized for both fiscal irresponsibility and for penny pinching, for needlessly antagonizing the Soviets and for being too soft on them, and so on. Nevertheless, he was easily renominated by the Republicans along with his Vice President Margaret Chase Smith.
Blue - President Dwight D. Eisenhower of New YorkRed - Senator Barry M. Goldwater of ArizonaGreen - Governor Cecil H. Underwood of West VirginiaThe Democrats meanwhile, following Humphrey's victory in the primaries, nominated him for President with their Senate leader, Lyndon Johnson, for Vice President.
Green - Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of MinnesotaRed - Senator John F. Kennedy of MassachusettsBlue - Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Sr. of CaliforniaHumphrey is campaigning on a platform of economic revitalization, claiming that the recession of 1958 was the result of Eisenhower's fiscal conservatism. As well, in order to appeal to Kennedy supporters and hawks, he is pressing Eisenhower on issues such as communism in Cuba and stressing his own anti-communist credentials. Southern Democrats, again disappointed by the nomination of a liberal, a northern liberal much less, against have the option of Unpledged Electors. Eisenhower is of course charging that his policies have kept America prosperous, in the black, and safe from the Soviet Union.
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