It seems to me that a number of presidential campaigns have taken place during perilous times without the candidates having to "suspend their campaigns."
In September 1864, Sherman had just captured Atlanta and was marching to the sea, but McClellan and Lincoln were duking it out.
In September 1940, the German Blitz against London began, the Axis alliance was cemented, and the U.S. instituted a national draft... but FDR and Wendell Willkie didn't suspend their campaigns.
In September 1944, the allies took 15,000 casualties as Operation Market Garden (the airborne assault on the Netherlands) went awry, but neither FDR nor Thomas Dewey took a timeout.
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In 1980, we had a hostage crisis in Iran...
--Cliff Stoudt
Let us not forget one of the best reasons a campaign has been put on hold.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9801E6DD113AE633A25757C2A9609C946396D6CF&oref=slogin
--Burns
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