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...than a third of the 1968 delegates were chosen before the year began, when neither major issues nor possible candidates had been clearly identified. Blacks made up only 5.5% of the Chicago delegations, although they are 11% of the population and 20% of the total that eventually voted for Hubert Humphrey. Women provided 52% of the Democratic vote in '68, yet they made up only 13% of the delegations. A majority of the delegations had no more than one member under 30 years old. The convention was predominantly white, male, middle-aged and at least middle class...
...contention when his wife became ill, reportedly received $150,000 from Milton Gilbert, former chief executive of the Gilbert Flexi-Van Corp., and $50,000 or more from at least three other backers. Of the remaining candidates, active or otherwise, only a few are on sound fiscal footing. HUBERT HUMPHREY. "Hubert's money is in escrow," says one Democrat. When he does pull out the stops, Humphrey can look for assistance to an impressive array of bank accounts-led by a Minnesota financier and longtime Humphrey backer, Dwayne Andreas. Arthur Krim, the New York theater magnate, is still thought...
...next eight months contains mazes of possibilities. It is all but certain that Kennedy will not run in any of the primaries, even the late ones in New York and California, both of which could be prime Kennedy territories. But if the primaries prove inconclusive, with Muskie, George McGovern, Hubert Humphrey, Scoop Jackson and perhaps others dividing those preliminary spoils, it is more than possible that a convention might turn to Kennedy as the one man who, with his constituencies spanning the left, center and even some of the right, might unite the party to defeat Nixon...
...bring to television an effective counterimage to Nixon, as he did on election eve last November. Of Humphrey, Muskie and Kennedy, Nixon's political advisers think Humphrey would be the easiest to defeat. "He's got all those scars," says a Republican National Committee official, "and if you get Hubert, you're likely to get a fourth party...
...make a case that a Democratic victory is possible. Don't you think that anyone who voted for Hubert Humphrey in 1968 will vote for a Democrat next time? And what if we can get 8,000,000 young voters to the polls out of the 25 million who will be eligible? But I don't underestimate the strength of the President's appeal...