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General Eisenhower defeated Senator Taft for the 1952 GOP nomination, but it was a pretty close thing. If Senator Nixon hadn't done some backroom work for Ike with the California delegates, Taft might have prevailed.

So what would have happened then? Eisenhower easily beat Democratic Governor Adlai Stevenson in the general election, but Taft was nowhere as popular with the general public as Ike. Would Taft have beaten Stevenson anyway, or would he have lost?

And who would Taft have chosen for VP ...?
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