Don't Let This Happen to You! Vote for Ike!

Shopmaker, Helen S. (collector)
Shopmaker, Allen B. (collector)

1952

other

Elections
Voting
Political campaigns
Presidential candidates
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965.

1950-1959

Broadside with white and orange background and black text that reads "Don't let this happen to YOU! VOTE for IKE!" with an image of the bottom of a shoe with a hole in its sole. The shoe with the hole belonged to Dwight "Ike" Eisenhower's opponent, Adlai Stevenson II, who was photographed on the campaign trail with a hole in his shoe. Stevenson considered the image a sign of his frugal nature, but opponents used it as a symbol of his inability to care for himself, much less for a country.

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