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...Humphrey may be compelled to take that risk. As things stand, the Democratic Party is in its worst shape since 1952. Edmund Muskie, between sensible speeches to generally small crowds, has shrugged a number of times: "If we lose, I'll still be the Democratic Senator from Maine." A Gallup poll that was released last week reported that the public has far more confidence in the G.O.P. than in the Democrats, when it comes to the ability to cope with major problems. The split was 56% v. 44%. Four years ago, the Democrats led in a similar survey...
...best for him to do nothing, and last week Johnson declared at a press conference that he does not intend to undertake "partisan activities." If that is true, Humphrey may have reason to be grateful in the light of Johnson's plunge to a new low in the Gallup ratings (35% approval, 52% disapproval). Of course, a President can still hit the campaign trail and call it "governmental" rather than partisan activity if he so chooses. Aside from Texas, however, there are few places where the President is likely to be more an asset than a detriment to Humphrey...
Even before the campaign officially began, Wallace received close to 20% of the popular vote in both of the major polls. In the South, the Gallup poll gave him a full 36%, more than either Richard Nixon or Hubert Humphrey. If crowd reactions are any indication, the disorders in Chicago have only strengthened his repressive "law and order" theme. "The other two national parties," he said on television last week, "are panic-stricken because they realize that they can no longer hoodwink the American people. They have stayed in power this long only because there was no other choice...
...Gallup poll bore dismal tidings. Where Richard Nixon led Humphrey by a scant 2% before his nomination as the G.O.P. presidential candidate, last week he had opened up a huge 16% margin, with 45% to Hubert's 29%. Humphrey aides pointed out, correctly, that even Barry Goldwater's polled popularity spurted dramatically immediately after his nomination, from 21% to 36%. All the same, the findings gave Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy's supporters an opportunity to proclaim that the Vice President was "not electable...
...anything, last week's consensus statement simply made matters worse. In persuading Gallup to endorse the apologia, Harris may have widened the trade's credibility gap to the dimensions of 1948, when virtually every opinion sampling was ushering New York's Thomas E. Dewey into the White House. Twenty years later, the memory of that year sends shudders down the spines of all pollsters. One pollster called last week's results "a fiasco." Another, Burns Roper, observed: "If this statement of 'open lead' for Rockefeller is construed by readers as being designed to influence...