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Psychedelic Lights. When Kennedy was killed, anticipated contributions from businessmen, who did not like Humphrey so much as they feared Kennedy, failed to materialize. Eugene McCarthy soaked up some cash that otherwise would have gone to Humphrey during the summer. Finally, Nixon's 16-point lead in the Gallup poll after the G.O.P. Convention persuaded many potential big contributors to save their money for more hopeful causes...
...when he made his first presidential bid but dropped out of the race after Barry Goldwater was nominated, support for Wallace's American Independent Party is concentrated in the South, where Gallup gives him 38% of the vote, more than he gives either Nixon or Humphrey. But strong Wallace sentiment is found in every other section as well. He is on the ballot in all 50 states. (The Supreme Court may knock...
...candidate would inspire the most confidence as President gave Nixon 40%, Humphrey 28%, Wallace 14%. Surveys by the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor showed Nixon the easy winner, with Wallace second and Humphrey third in probable electoral votes. When he heard the tally of the latest Gallup poll (Nixon 44%, Humphrey 29%, Wallace 20%), the Republican candidate bounded to the back of his campaign plane for an ebullient chat with reporters, felt so uncharacteristically talkative that he returned twice more during the flight...
However uncomfortable its current condition, the U.S.'s oldest political party* is not quite in extremis. Many members remain loyal. Even in this conservative year, the Gallup poll finds that 46% of the public still identifies itself as Democratic (though it is not necessarily prepared to vote that way in November) compared with 27% who claim the Republican label. In 1860 the party was in such horrendous shape that it held two conventions and ran two candidates against Lincoln. But by the '70s, the Democrats were united again. The rhythm of American politics invariably brings forward new issues...
...just as entitled to personal prejudices as anyone else-so long as they control them better than anyone else. When scores of skull-cracking policemen "overreacted" against innocent bystanders in Chicago, they undermined the very order they meant to maintain. The fact that 56% of Americans approved (according to Gallup) makes such occurrences no more palatable. By responding as they did, Chicago police gave the true anarchists among the demonstrators a victory they never dared imagine. If a demonstrator can provoke a riot by hurling four-letter words at a policeman, the U.S. is in for more disorder than...