Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Wallace and harried by a remarkably high proportion of voters who angrily refused to discuss their choice, the nation's major pollsters went into Election Day under a cloud of acrimony. George Gallup and Louis Harris had been markedly far apart for weeks on their reports of Hubert Humphrey's strength. In late September, Gallup placed the Democratic nominee 15 percentage points behind, while Harris consistently pegged Humphrey much closer, sometimes only half as far back...
While both surveys were constant on Nixon, never varying more than 2%, Humphrey's estimate rocketed dramatically. Two days before the election, Humphrey had risen from a low of 28% in the Gallup poll and 31% in the Harris rating to 40% in both, with Nixon placed by both surveys at 42%. Next day, in a move that led Nixon aides to charge that onetime Democratic Pollster Harris was trying to con the voters, Harris claimed that Humphrey had taken a 43-40 lead...
...final returns seemed headed for a virtual tie in the popular vote, the rival surveys could rightly claim that they had come well within their acceptable error of 4%. Harris had Humphrey on the button, Nixon three points low. Gallup was one point low on Nixon and three on Humphrey. Both correctly forecast the Wallace vote. In the end, Gallup and Harris turned out to be reasonably accurate and had obviously restored some confidence in polls...
While Edmund Muskie sat with Hubert Humphrey in a pre-election TV talkathon from Los Angeles, Richard Nixon conducted his own four-hour program without the help of his running mate. To make sure that Agnew did not feel slighted, however, Nixon was almost comically extravagant in his praise. The Marylander, said Nixon, "is a man with brains. He's a man of very great courage. He doesn't wilt under fire." Meanwhile, Agnew campaigned in Virginia, then flew home to Maryland, where he relaxed on Election Day on the golf course, and gave a party in Government House...
...outset of a campaign that progressed from disarray to the brink of disaster, Hubert Horatio Humphrey confessed to close aides: "I'm dead." He was down so far he had no place to go but up. And up he went-up from a 16-point deficit in the polls, up from the chaos of the Democratic Convention. When he bade good night to loyal Democratic Party workers in the ballroom of the Leamington Hotel in Minneapolis at 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 6, the Vice President was racing neck and neck against Richard Nixon. Crucial states were still teetering...