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Consider George Corley Wallace himself, the dour little Alabama demagogue who has influenced the entire 1968 campaign, defied the two-party system and raised the specter that no one will be elected President on Nov. 5. Though the odds against him are very long indeed, he could conceivably become the 37th President of the U.S. "We could be elected," he says. "It is not an impossible dream...
...party system. Not since 1825 has an election been decided by the House of Representatives, as this one possibly threatens to be. Yet, starting from the narrowest of bases, with a single stock speech and not one constructive proposal to offer a troubled nation, Alabama's George Corley Wallace has profoundly affected the context of the 1968 campaign...
...scene possessed a grotesque impropriety. At the tomb of Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Ill., Alabama's George Corley Wallace, symbol of unregenerate Southern racism, reverently placed a wreath of red and white flowers. Said Wallace: "It's good to be in the land of Lincoln...
...reason for the fuss this year is the possibility, exaggerated though it may be, that George Corley Wallace and his "spoiler" third party could conceivably capitalize on the proportional mathematics of the College and deny victory to either major-party candidate. Wallace would thus deadlock the results of the Nov. 5 voting, and -with just two weeks remaining before Inauguration Day -could throw the election into the House of Representatives. Political Scientist James MacGregor Burns says of the U.S. electoral process: "It's a game of Russian roulette, and one of these days we are going to blow...
...George Corley Wallace's politics are about as new as "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too!" yet even the Alabamian is helped by the electorate's prevailing en nui with familiar faces and conventional styles. He took his third-party candidacy on a six-day, 24-town swing through Massachusetts last week, drawing curious, generally friendly crowds of up to 3,000, despite ubiquitous hecklers. The latest Gallup poll showed that Wallace has steadily gained popularity not only in the Solid South but elsewhere in the country as well...