Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...primary. Oregon Democrats allowed Eugene McCarthy to check Robert Kennedy's drive, while the Republicans gave new velocity to Richard Nixon's bid for the nomination. By so doing, Oregonians made it more likely than ever that the post-convention contest would be between Nixon and Hubert Humphrey, the two ostensible traditionalists in the crowd...
...opposition to California's open-housing law, promotes a legislative package aimed at economic salvation of the ghettos. Nixon, still regarded by many as the partisan epitomized, reaches out with new ideas for the support of independents and Democrats, and talks up the development of black capitalism. Humphrey, too, advocates expanded opportunities for Negro ownership of inner-city businesses...
...Kicks. Kennedy himself inflated his overdog standing by simply ignoring McCarthy, concentrating instead on flaying Hubert Humphrey. Bobby dodged Gene's challenge to debate; he ignored taunts about his own record concerning Viet Nam; he seemed not to be listening at all as McCarthy increasingly and effectively sharpened his anti-Kennedy rhetoric...
...wished they'd booed me or kicked me or done something. I just couldn't get much response." By then it was too late. McCarthy got 45% of the vote, Kennedy 39%, Johnson (whose abdication came too late to permit his removal from the ballot) 12%, and Humphrey 4%, as a write-in candidate. It was the first defeat suffered by any of the three Kennedy brothers in the 27 primary and general-election campaigns they have waged since John F. first ran for Congress...
During the months ahead, the polls will be more important than the primaries. While Kennedy must surge ahead in both to capture the Democratic nomination, Hubert Humphrey's best hope of braking a Kennedy bandwagon is to continue outpolling all other Democrats. In re-entering the Republican race, Rockefeller has become the first presidential candidate to base his campaign almost wholly on polls. He can win the nomination only if national surveys convince G.O.P. regulars that Nixon will lose in November. But those surveys now put both Republican contenders ahead of all Democrats-and if that reading continues...