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...presidential race," Pollster George Gallup declared last month, "may go into the record books as the one that shattered more traditional voting patterns than any other election of this century...
...final week, the enameled confidence that had marked Nixon's staff from the first began to crack. In the final hours, it all but collapsed. From a virtually unassailable lead of 16 points over Hubert Humphrey in the mid-August Gallup poll, Nixon had declined to a scant two-point edge in both the Gallup and Harris surveys on the last week-end of the race. On Election Eve, Harris weighed in with a final poll that took into account the impact of the Viet Nam bombing pause proclaimed by Lyndon Johnson last week. In it-astonishingly-Humphrey...
Plagued by the elusive support for George Wallace and harried by a remarkably high proportion of voters who angrily refused to discuss their choice, the nation's major pollsters went into Election Day under a cloud of acrimony. George Gallup and Louis Harris had been markedly far apart for weeks on their reports of Hubert Humphrey's strength. In late September, Gallup placed the Democratic nominee 15 percentage points behind, while Harris consistently pegged Humphrey much closer, sometimes only half as far back...
While both surveys were constant on Nixon, never varying more than 2%, Humphrey's estimate rocketed dramatically. Two days before the election, Humphrey had risen from a low of 28% in the Gallup poll and 31% in the Harris rating to 40% in both, with Nixon placed by both surveys at 42%. Next day, in a move that led Nixon aides to charge that onetime Democratic Pollster Harris was trying to con the voters, Harris claimed that Humphrey had taken a 43-40 lead...
While Humphrey aides talk optimistically about an upset, a state-by-state breakdown presents them with a much bleaker picture than do the national polls, conceded by both Harris and George Gallup to be inconclusive...