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...McGovern won it with 41%, despite the state Democratic leaders' longstanding commitment to Ed Muskie. Humphrey again finished third, this time behind Muskie. Humphrey had wound up a dismal third in his favorite kind of state, Michigan, the week before. His campaign aides know that California could become Hubert's last hurrah unless he finds a way to stop McGovern there...
Although the most recent California poll (taken a month ago) showed Humphrey leading McGovern by 4%, Humphrey's top local strategist, Joe Cerrell, concedes that Hubert is now up to 8% behind. Pending a new survey, one reliable pollster predicts a "wide win for McGovern-perhaps even a landslide...
Forced to the defensive, McGovern has retaliated just as personally. "It's difficult to draw a distinction between the Lyndon Johnson-Hubert Humphrey era and the Richard Nixon era," he says. Humphrey, he adds, is "an Establishment figure" who represents "politics as usual." McGovern describes his campaign against Humphrey as a contest between "the old politics...
...June 6 primary; 56.4% are Democrats, 37.3% Republicans, and the remaining 6.3% are independents or members of parties such as Peace and Freedom, American Independent and La Raza Unida. Two TIME correspondents have been traveling with the two chief candidates since the start of the campaign, Hays Corey with Hubert Humphrey and Dean Fischer with George McGovern. Their reports...
...strain of campaigning sometimes shows in the deepening lines that crease Hubert Humphrey's face near the end of his 18-to 20-hour days. At other times he looks younger and full of bubbly vitality, especially when he talks to a responsive crowd that cheers his every utterance. Though he sports double-knit suits and fashionably longer hair, Humphrey still suffers from being as out of style as the crew cut, the rumble seat or high-button shoes in a state where voters like their politicians to be with it. As one ranking Democrat in California cracked: "Hubert...