Word: hubertism
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...little foxes never made it to Grandma Shirley's or forsook Uncle Hubert, because they got ambushed by Julian magic. One minute, there was magnolias, and then, suddenly, they were FMBC and, while Frank Mankiewicz was putting them down on the plus side of his delegate list, Julian Bond was strolling off on gilded splinters to ju-ju another stray...
Like many blacks. Bond was deeply discontented with the Democratic party after the '68 campaign. With nowhere else to go blacks--as they had since the New Deal--had religiously voted Democratic in '68, and had voted in such numbers that one out of every five votes Hubert Humphrey got was cast by a black. But, blacks had gotten little, if anything, back from the Democratic party in return. With the exception of Bond's nomination for the Vice-Presidency and the seating of the Mississippi Loyalists, blacks had failed to get at the Chicago Convention the kind of recognition...
...George Wallace's smashing victory in the Florida Primary outdated, undermined, or reversed several of these black strategies. His victory not only thrust Hubert Humphrey far to the right of the position he held in his halcyon days, but it also made it more difficult for many blacks to believe that they could afford to withhold their support any longer from the more liberal Democratic contenders in hopes of getting more for that support later. If Wallace built momentum unchecked in the primaries, later might be too late...
...California, McGovern was taken in tow by Hubert Humphrey, who did his ebullient best to make the nominee palatable to labor. Humphrey told union members in Los Angeles: "McGovern will make some mistakes, but they'll be mistakes, may I say, that are on your side. He may want to help the children more than someone who wants to watch those pennies. But, oh, may I say how fortunate we are to have a man that will make, possibly somewhere, a few of those mistakes." At a $250-a-plate dinner in keeping with his more modestly financed campaign...
...black candidates fared poorly in the race. Newton resident Hubert H. Jones, the most liberal of the candidates, placed fourth with 8068 votes, largely outdistancing Melvin Miller, publisher of the Bay State Banner, who received 1592 votes...