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THOMAS L. STOKES, Fair-Dealing syndicated columnist: "Is President Eisenhower's popularity holding up?" The answer is "Yes," by and large. Republican candidates for Congress, and even some for state office, are huddling under his mantle and singing his name. Democrats, on the other hand, refrain from direct attacks on the President, with very rare exceptions. As for the attitude of the public at large, the President finds himself in almost an unique position. He occupies a place separate and above the Republican Party, the Congress, and even the government. He is detached. Though Democrats may challenge this, it is ventured that the "Ike" legend might very well win again [in 1956], even if the Republican Party loses control of Congress.

GOULD LINCOLN, longtime political columnist for the Washington Star: The Democratic talk that Democrats in Congress will give the President the backing he needs is a laugh. With the 1956 presidential election coming up, a Democratic-controlled Congress will cut General Eisenhower's political throat—just as a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, elected in 1930, cut former President Herbert Hoover's.