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Boost. Edmund Muskie is going into Wisconsin with a psychological boost. Disappointed in New Hampshire and badly embarrassed in Florida, where Hubert Humphrey emerged a strong second behind George Wallace, Muskie captured 63% of the vote in a preferential poll against Eugene McCarthy last week in Illinois. Beating McCarthy was not exactly a triumph; Clean Gene was not taken seriously as a presidential contender, although he did campaign industriously. McCarthy's vote in part represented an informal coalition of "stop Muskie" voters, including supporters of Humphrey, George McGovern, John Lindsay and even Edward Kennedy, who has a hardcore following...
...farmers. A Public Broadcasting Service poll last week showed Humphrey with 18%, McGovern with 16% and Muskie with 13%. Says a Muskie organizer in Wisconsin: "Humphrey has diehard support. I myself won't watch him on TV for fear I'll weaken. For most of us here, Hubert is more than a candidate. He is a blood brother...
More accurately, Wallace turned the party inside out. The Democrat who ran closest to him was Hubert Humphrey, with a mere 18% of the vote. The supposed front runner, Edmund Muskie, did only half as well as Humphrey, finishing fourth after Scoop Jackson (13%). In a brooding, bitter election-night speech, Muskie said of Wallace: "I hate what he stands for. The man is a demagogue of the worst kind. This election result in Florida reveals to a greater extent than I had imagined some of the worst instincts of which human beings are capable...
...paid off. The Humphrey camp happily agreed with their leader that "it's a whole new ball game." Hubert was campaigning briskly in the Midwest within hours after the Florida results were known. Fearing the Wallace appeal to labor, Humphrey pleaded for support with union leaders in Detroit, where busing is a big issue. Recalling his years of help to labor, he argued: "You'd better get yourself a President that will speak up for you before it's too late. You don't need a new face; you need somebody that's been tested...
...also gives us an issue: all the things he stands for -they're the real issues. In that sense, it gives us a cutting edge that will be very useful. Nobody else won in Florida. If we'd spent as much time in Florida as Hubert did, we would have done as well. We could have played the numbers game...