Vidhi Patel Melissa Coyle Composition II 14 February 2016 Popularity Contest Dwight D. Eisenhower had five brothers and they all had the same nickname “Ike.” The whole country knew him by his nickname Ike. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States. He ran for the election in the 1952 presidential race. Adlai Stevenson ran for the Democratic Party after being nominated by Harry S Truman who was not very popular during this time period due to the Korean War. Eisenhower won the presidential campaign by a landslide due to his war hero status. He was the supreme Commander of Operation during the allied force attack on the Nazi invaded Europe. In 5 years Eisenhower went from being a low level lieutant in the Philippines to being the …show more content…
commander of the greatest invading force in the history (Chester Pach). Due to all this Adlai Stevenson stood no chance against winning the election. Dwight Eisenhower’s presidential campaign ad for the 1952 race worked for him because of his use of bandwagoning, he influenced people to vote for him without physically being in the ad, and he did all this without mentioning what he had to offer to the country if he was elected president. Dwight Eisenhower was a great president because he kept peace and the inflation rates during his presidency where at the lowest, that being said Eisenhower mainly won the presidential campaign in 1952 mostly due to his popularity.
In the video Eisenhower was never physically present asking or telling people to vote for him rather the ad had people walking saying “Ike for President”. I think he might have done this because he knew that since he was so popular that he might not have had to do as much as the other candidate. “The primaries had been split fairly evenly between the two men, and the nomination came down to the wire, but ultimately Eisenhower won the nomination based largely on the perception that he was a sure winner,” (“Dwight Eisenhower”). This was a quote from the presidential archive that kind of states that he got the change to run for presidency because of his popularity. Both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party asked Eisenhower to run for them in the election due to his popularity. Eisenhower went with the Republican Party because he thought of himself as more of a conservative than a liberal. This also reflected onto the actual presidency race because he won 54.9% of the popular vote. The campigan ad is much like quote, indicated that the election was solely based of …show more content…
popularity. The election of 1952 was, in some ways, a popularity contest. Eisenhower influenced people to vote for him with even mentioning why he should’ve been elected for president. His ad campaign for the election is proof. Nowhere in his ad does he say “Vote for Ike” instead it says “I like Ike, You like Ike everybody likes like,” (“1952 Presidential Campaign TV Ads"). In my opinion that’s not a reason someone should be elected to lead an entire country just because you like someone. Some valid reasons should have been put in the campaign ad and he also should have told the people why he should have been elected president. “When a voter votes for the winning candidate, some intangible benefits can be expected. For example, voters may engage in bandwagon vote choices because they receive consumption utility or satisfaction from voting for the winner in an election, which is independent of the outcome of the election.” This was a quote from Rebecca Morton in her article, “What Motives Bandwagon Voting Behavior: Altruism or a Desire to Win?” This quote is merely trying to say that the voters who vote have ethereal benefits that are linked to personal pressures. Everyone who voted for Eisenhower did so because they wanted to vote for the winning president so eventually after the election they could say “oh yes I voted for the winning candidate” instead of having to say “oh I did not vote for the popular guy, I voted for the other one.” People voted for Eisenhower because they wanted to say that they voted for the voting president without even wanting to know what he had to offer during his presidency after his heroic war efforts. Merriam- Webster defends bandwagon as “an ornate or high wagon for a band of musicians, generally in a circus parade.” Well a bandwagon in our case it is a political candidate using his popularity to attract growing support from the general population to get votes to win an election. Eisenhower’s campaign ad “I like Ike” is a “Jump on the wagon” video. You see all types of people from different backgrounds walking/marching in the same direction saying “ike for president.” The ad is trying to convenience us that if we all come together and vote for Eisenhower we can make him president. In the “parade” you see families, farmers, and elephants marching and saying “I for President. “Bring out the banners, beat the drums, we'll take Ike to Washington,” (“1952 Presidential Campaign TV Ads”). This is a direct quote from the campaign ad that in little words says that if you jump on the wagon we can make Eisenhower president. “He knew that people like to vote for the winner. He would often tell me that he would rather have someone say that he was going to win rather than say that they were going to vote for him. ... “If they hear someone say they're going to vote for me, they figure they might have a selfish motive, but say he’s going to win invites everyone to get on the train to victory and vote for the winner.’,”(Morton and Ou). This is quote is from a George Wallace the master of Politics in Alabama. He like Eisenhower understood the importance of being a winner. Wallace said that he would tell people say that Wallace was going to when instead of them saying they were going to vote for him. Wallace thought that if people said that he was going to win he could because it promotes “voting for the winner.” In a way Eisenhower used that his advantage because he was technically a winner (Leading commander of the greatest invasion in history). I feel like this kind of shaped the American identify in a way because if you look at everyone today they are all on some kind of a bandwagon.
Today everything that happens today depends solely on famous people such as celebrities, political icons, and etc. Being different and individualism doesn’t exist anymore because it all can be linked to some bandwagon. This campaign ad was, in my opinion, a popularity contest. There were no real evidences also to why he should have been elected president. He was never physically present in the ad asking people vote for him rather using a bandwagon to get votes. He was a great president but I think he could’ve cared a little bit more and he could have won with more votes than he already
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