Does Adlai Stevenson's campaign have any relevance to this election?

I came across this about Stevenson & thought it was relevant to more than one candidacy for the nomination.
Any thoughts on this from others?

Here's a snip from a bio @ http://www.course-notes.org/biographies/adlaiewingstevenson.htm

"Stevenson was elected Democratic governor of Illinois in 1948. In this first candidacy for public office, he achieved his only victory at the polls. During his four-year administration, Stevenson drew able people into the state government and improved the police force, highways, educational system, and welfare programs. He also vetoed bills that troubled him, including an anti-Communist measure which he regarded as "more dangerous to ourselves than to our foes."

Stevenson's electoral triumph and his record as governor aroused national interest in him as a prospective Democratic presidential candidate for the 1952 election Nevertheless, unable to resist pressures generated by President Truman and other party leaders, he accepted a draft to oppose the Republican candidate, Dwight D. Eisenhower. Stevenson's campaign enlarged his circle of enthusiastic followers, but failed to produce victory.

He defended Truman's foreign policy of containment, but rejected the President's "give 'em hell" political technique in favor of "talking sense" to the American people. To Stevenson, talking sense meant essentially avoiding suggestions that there were cheap and easy solutions to the nation's problems. His earnest speeches, however, could not compensate for his opponent's advantages: Eisenhower was a national hero, and there was widespread confidence in his ability in foreign affairs, while Truman's foreign policy was unpopular.

Stevenson captured only nine states; the electoral vote was 442 to 89. After the election, Stevenson continued to play a large political role as titular leader of the Democratic party. He traveled widely, spoke frequently, and criticized the Eisenhower administration vigorously. He maintained that the administration was weakening the vital Western alliance and not doing enough to promote economic development and to combat communism. "


edit to add my own comment: I'm not talking about any exact synchronies seeing as how I'm certainly not equating Bush and Eisenhower.

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

1. Yeah - any thinking person should vote for ABB

Hopefully we'll have a majority.

[villager]

2. wow... referencing one of my favorite Adlai quotes!

thanks!

4. if you do a google for Adlai Stevenson thinking person

this is what you get as second entry

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2003/11/gen_clark_looks.html

"General Clark: "I think all Americans - and this is a joke! - all Americans, even if they're from the South and 'stupid,' should be represented."

Adlai Stevenson: "When an admirer gushed to Adlai Stevenson 'Every thinking person will vote for you' he ruefully replied 'Yes, but I need a majority'." "

I wasn't trying to compare only Clark to Stevenson in my original post though, I was thinking about what happens when you "talk sense to the American people" however.

[villager]

6. yes, but alas...

...Stevenson wasn't really wrong. Voting is all fear-driven and reactive -- no one thinks about their best, long-run interests... never mind their children's, or the planet's...

[Capn Sunshine]

3. I really see a LOT more similarities to Bob Dole

Apparently so did yesterdays Wall Street Journal.

5. I missed WSJ

Happen to have a link?
Comparing Dole with who?
Just curious.