Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Wallace, the dreaded unknown factor, proved to be primarily a sectional candidate after all. His major impact was confined to the Deep South, where, as expected, he and his running mate, Curtis LeMay, carried Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Georgia. Nowhere in the industrial Northern states did he wrench away a massive blue-collar vote. In Boston's working-class districts, for example, Humphrey tallied 74% of the vote to Wallace's 24%. In poorer white sections of Detroit, pre-election Wallace partisans flocked back to the Democratic Party, joining Negroes, suburban whites and elderly voters...
...Senate, began soliciting support and wearing H.H.H. buttons. They even became intolerant of McCarthyites who refused to join them. Some question remained of how badly Humphrey was hurt by dissident Democrats who stayed away from the polls as a protest. But the nonvote was not the significant factor. If the election did not represent a triumph of the New Politics, it was still the most massive single exercise of participatory democracy in the nation's history...
...even the worsening weather, the onset of winter, was cited as a factor that might have contributed to the generally tense situation of the past few weeks...
...observer insisted that Hanoi can rely on only six of every ten men sent south to fight; the rest defect, including an even larger number of North Vietnamese civilian administrators, or melt into the jungle. The growing rate of defections, moreover, leads to better allied intelligence-a major factor in recent months in blunting Communist offensives...
...made the difference. The first spur was the deadly 1968 Tet offensive, which brought the war home to urban Vietnamese as never before. The Viet Cong occupied large sections of Phu Vinh, capital of Vinh Binh province, and killed 13 civilians be fore they were driven out. The second factor is a swashbuckling ex-actor named Tom Hayden, at 27 the No. 2 U.S. representative in Vinh Binh province. He set the example by helping turn his Phu Vinh irregulars into a disciplined and effective fighting force...