ames W. Davis, Presidential Primaries Road to the White House, (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1980), 12 13.
6 Ibid., 13. In the 1952 Presidential election, the amount of column inches reported for the New Hampshire primary in Time was fifty eight. This came from three dates, February 18, March 10, and March 24th. The breakdown is as follows: for February 18, twelve column inches total, six in horserace, six in issue; March 10, ten column inches total, all of which were horserace; and March 24, thirty six column inches total, thirty four in horserace, two in issue.7
Initially, the Democratic split in New Hampshire was between then President Harry Truman and Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver. The Republican side had Dwight Eisenhower in the lead, but even his own campaign manager, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., knew that New Hampshire was not safe for
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