Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rocky's camp countered with a commissioned sampling by another veteran pollster, Archibald Crossley, who had surveyed the nation's nine major industrial states and found that the New Yorker could easily coast past both the Democrats, while Nixon would tie with McCarthy and defeat Humphrey by only three points...
Chorus of Hoots. Then Louis Harris published an independent national survey showing Rockefeller six points ahead of both Humphrey and McCarthy. Nixon, said Harris, would lose to Humphrey by five points and to McCarthy by eight. The wide discrepancies in the samplings brought a chorus of hoots-especially, of course, from the Nixon camp...
...unprecedented joint public statement. After consulting Crossley, they issued a complicated collective verdict. If their three polls were "plotted out sequentially, as though they were conducted by a single organization, using the same sampling techniques and the same question-asking techniques," they concluded, then 1) a Nixon-Humphrey race would be extremely close, "with Wallace perhaps holding the balance"; 2) "Rockefeller has now moved to an open lead over his possible Democratic opponents, Humphrey and McCarthy"; and 3) "the McCarthy vote has shown and continues to show the greatest amount of volatility among the four leading candidates...
Crossley's poll was taken between July 21 and 26, and Harris' between July 26 and 29. Some analysts point out that as Harris was doing his sampling, Rockefeller's saturation advertising and personal campaign activity was reaching a peak, while Nixon was vacationing briefly and Humphrey was recovering from...
...problem is acute for Hubert Humphrey, odds-on favorite for nomination. Try as he might, the Vice President so far has not been able to shake the Johnson legacy or stake out his own position. Speaking in Los Angeles' south central ghetto last week, Humphrey was greeted with such deafening boos and shouts of "Honky, go home!" that he was forced off the stage. Though aides claimed that hecklers had been hired for the occasion, the truth still was that no more than 300 or 400 Los Angeles Negroes even bothered to come in the first place...