On the night of March 10 a heavy blanket of wet snow fell, but this did not depress the turnout on the following day: twice as many voters came out to the polls as in the primary of 1948. And the results were stunning: not only did Eisenhower sweep the delegates, winning all 14, but he topped the popularity poll decisively, garnering 46,661 votes to Taft’s 35,838. Perhaps more significant for the 1952 national election, Kefauver edged out Truman, winning even labor-heavy districts in Manchester. The president had not campaigned in New Hampshire, but even so it was a blow to lose to a
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