Why did republican supporters favor richard nixon as dwight eisenhower's vice-presidential candidate for the 1952 election apex?

Nixon tended toward the center on liberal and conservative issues

He was therefore favored as a neutralizing bait to the powerful liberal voices in the country which had developed during the liberal years of Roosevelt and Truman. This was in cognizant to the fact that the democrats were dominating the country's arms of government, notably congress, and had managed the executive for two decade. winning such an election against such an establishment was an uphill task that the two had to surmount with a bait of balance of ideology.