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...California's winner-take-all primary last month. Instead of having a virtually unbeatable first-ballot arsenal, the South Dakotan suddenly had his delegate strength pared, at least for the present, down to well below 1,300 -far short of the 1,509 needed for nomination. Suddenly Hubert Humphrey was politically alive again. So, for that matter, were Edmund Muskie and any number of dark horses. What had promised to be a ritual endorsement next week at Miami Beach now loomed as a bitter and potentially fratricidal collision of McGovern insurgents and party regulars. The clash could cause...
Among other things, the Republicans will quote Hubert Humphrey's sulfurous attacks on McGovern during the recent California campaign. If McGovern is too radical for Humphrey, they will say . .. And leave the sentence dangling. If Humphrey himself should get the nomination, the Republicans are confident that they could take him nearly as easily. The White House regards Humphrey as a used-up politician who would repel the young, probably trigger a splinter party of the left and be vulnerable because of his old associations with the Johnson Administration, which the Republicans would probably refer to as "the Humphrey-Johnson...
After dropping some hints that he might be available, Edward Kennedy last week issued a Shermanesque statement (see following story). Edmund Muskie remained in the race, hoping dimly that if McGovern fetched up short of a first-ballot victory, the convention might deadlock and turn to him. Hubert Humphrey, behaving with all the scrambling ebullience of a fresh contender, says he remains convinced that in the end organized labor and the party's regular leaders will reject McGovern and leave him 100-150 votes short of a first-ballot nomination. Humphrey says he expects to control 672 first-ballot...
...George McGovern, victory in California meant more than capturing the largest block of delegates so far to the Democratic Convention. It signified an important broadening of his base among voters who until California have been largely counted in the camps of Hubert Humphrey and other contenders. McGovern made major gains among organized labor, the elderly, blacks, Chicanos, the poor-groups whose support he needs in order to have any chance against Nixon. So indicates a TIME/ Yankelovich survey of 570 California voters, who were interviewed as they were leaving the polling booths. The findings...
...votes cast by those in the 18-to-24 age group, who constituted a sixth of all Democrats casting ballots in the primary. Surprisingly, union members gave McGovern a 47%-to-42% edge over Humphrey, despite the fact that most of the state's labor leaders backed Hubert. Equally new in primary-voting patterns was the South Dakota Senator's popularity with blacks and Mexican-Americans, among whom he tied with Humphrey. Though he carried the senior citizen vote by a 2-to-1 margin in some earlier primaries this year, Humphrey's lead dropped off sharply...