Red Scare? Revisiting Joe McCarthy’s Influence on 1950s Elections
Abstract
In the early 1950s, politicians apparently allowed themselves to be spectators to the anticommunist witch hunt of Senator Joe McCarthy and his supporters, leading to a particularly grim chapter in American politics. In part, they did so because they thought the public supported McCarthy. Although politicians lacked contemporary public opinion data, they apparently inferred McCarthy’s support from key Senate race outcomes. The few senators who...
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Title
Red Scare? Revisiting Joe McCarthy’s Influence on 1950s Elections
Published Date
Jan 1, 2014
Journal
Volume
78
Issue
2
Pages
369 - 391
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