Word: alabamians
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...Humphrey's desperate problems, there are a few signs that Nixon's lead is not unassailable. Nixon him self is losing votes to Wallace. He is particularly concerned because the Alabamian has become his "major competitor" in such Southern "perimeter" states as Kentucky, Virginia and Florida. "I'm getting 95% of the Republican vote," says Nixon, "but I'm not getting enough of the Democratic vote. That's where Wallace is hurting." To avoid building up the Alabamian, Nixon last week rejected a three-way debate among the major candidates. "I still think the best...
George Wallace, who had won his place in Alabamian hearts with his door-blocking stand at the University of Alabama, came out fuming when federal courts introduced the Freedom Of Choice plan. To outsiders, it didn't sound too threatening. It just said that any student could choose to go to any school he wanted; it seemed like basic American individual choice and everything good. But in the South, it posed an immediate danger: it meant that BLACK CHILDREN would be coming to the WHITE SCHOOLS. The white South had to act fast...
...they have but has gone considerably further in tailoring his campaign to suit the fears and angers of a disturbed country. Both men are apprehensive about what Wallace might do to them on election day. Yet neither has had the political courage to take on the pugnacious little Alabamian by condemning him for what he is?a demagogue who has touched a nerve with his "law and order" theme...
...union men-as well as the legions of other middle- and lower-middle-class people at whom Wallace's appeal is aimed-will be able to vote for him in all 50 states. Ohio, the last major holdout, was ordered by Associate Justice Potter Stewart to put the Alabamian's name on the ballot pending a hearing by the Supreme Court next month...
...assumption that Wallace will damage Nixon in the South and Humphrey in the North may be at least partly wrong. In Southern and Border states, he does threaten Nixon. A late Wallace surge could give the Alabamian five more states?the Carolinas, Tennessee, Florida and Arkansas ?and swell his electoral vote to 91. Or it could siphon enough votes away from Nixon to enable Humphrey to eke out a few unexpected victories. In the North, Wallace is cutting into the normally Democratic blue-collar wards. But a substantial number of those votes might have gone to Nixon this year...