Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This will come as a great surprise to the delegates," rumbled Johnson. "Most of them thought they were going to Los Angeles to confer with their fellow Democrats to help select the next President." In San Francisco, his last stop before Los Angeles, Johnson noted derisively that Kennedy first-ballot delegate claims had backtracked in three weeks from 710 to 600 votes. "California, here I am," thundered Johnson in his speech to a disappointingly small welcoming crowd at the Los Angeles airport. "It doesn't matter how many razzle-dazzle predictions you get. The only thing that's important...
Razzle-Dazzle Predictions. With the virtually solid backing of the South and scattered support in the West, Johnson, at the time of his announcement last week, could count up some 500 first-ballot votes toward the 761 needed to win the nomination?but Jack Kennedy could count well beyond 600. Arithmetically, the gap seemed fairly narrow. Strategically, it was enormous...
...real belief in Kennedy as the best possible candidate, but from politicians' normal desire to get with the winner in time to earn rewards or at least avoid punishments. Once the convention saw that Kennedy was not going to run away with the nomination on the first or second ballot, his support would start melting away, and the convention would then turn to Lyndon Johnson as the best qualified candidate?so ran Johnson's hopes. * "I think you're rewarded for what you do, what you produce, and not for kissing babies," he said. "I'll believe this until...
...sharpest spur in the Kennedy camp's intense drive to put Jack over on the first ballot was the lurking fear that Lyndon Johnson was probably right in his prediction that if Jack failed to win on an early ballot his strength would start to wane. To help ensure a first-ballot victory, Jack Kennedy had offered Adlai Stevenson a chance to be Secretary of State in the Kennedy Administration. Kennedy was furious when Stevenson temporized...
...closed-door huddles with delegates, Johnson argued that the air would start hissing out of the Kennedy balloon after the second ballot. Kennedy, he insisted, would be a weak candidate?mistrusted by farmers (Kennedy declared himself opposed to high price supports back in 1955), widely mistrusted by Negroes, vulnerable to Republican charges of absenteeism (he had missed nearly 80% of the Senate roll-call votes since the session began in January). Johnson tried hard to argue down the Northern Democrats' two main objections to his own candidacy: i) he is too conservative to be acceptable to labor and eggheads...