Word: balloters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only weak part of the Democratic production may be the climax. Vice President Hubert Humphrey has long been odds-on favorite to win a first-ballot nomination, and remained so on the eve of the convention. But even there, the Democrats were contriving to provide some suspense. Thanks to Humphrey's stumbling performance in recent weeks, doubts were multiplying about him as a candidate-and as a potential President. Rumors circulated in Chicago and Washington that if deadlock developed, delegates would draft Senator Edward Kennedy, who emerged from 21 months of seclusion to deliver an impressive speech in which...
...Vice President's aides pooh-poohed all rumors, claiming at least 1,450 first-ballot votes for their man (needed to nominate: 1,312). Nonetheless, some Humphrey supporters were fearful that the whole operation was coming unstuck and that a delay in the convention-whether as a result of prolonged floor fights, paralyzing disorders outside the hall or anything else -could prove dangerous. The fact is that Humphrey has thus far failed to make much of an impression on the electorate or to demonstrate that he is his own man, not Lyndon Johnson...
Humphrey's campaign manager, Larry O'Brien, still calculates that the Vice President will collect some 1,600 delegate votes on the first ballot-or nearly 300 more than the 1,312 he will need for nomination. Indeed, a TIME survey of the states' delegations indicated that, as of last week, Humphrey could count on 1,524 probable delegate votes. McCarthy, the survey suggested, would get 626, and McGovern somewhere around...
Though still confident of a first-ballot victory, Humphrey toured the Midwest and Northeast over the weekend to meet with party leaders and shore up his delegate strength. He delivered mild gibes at McCarthy, but concentrated most of his attacks on Nixon and the Republican nominee's Southern supporters. "Nixon called on the midnight of the South," said Humphrey. "I call on its dawn and high noon." On the same theme, Humphrey hopes to popularize the slogan "Clear it with Strom," suggesting that South Carolina's Strom Thurmond has veto power over Nixon's decisions. Meanwhile, Humphreyphobes...
...sure, the South contributed the necessary margin for Richard Nixon's first-ballot nomination, but in a spirit of acceptance rather than enthusiasm. Southern Republicans could not have Ronald Reagan and would not have Nelson Rockefeller. Nixon became their only realistic choice. South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond's role in Miami Beach was described by many observers as that of kingmaker. It would be more accurate to say that he acted as the king's bodyguard, jealously fending off the Reagan forces because they could not carry the nation, and assiduously blocking the selection of an outright...