Word: humphrey
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...Humphrey can count as safe only four states and the District of Columbia. He holds a precarious edge in Minnesota, his home state, and West Virginia, for a total of 46 electoral votes. In Michigan, Polltaker Frederick Currier found only a single percentage point separating him from Nixon. George Wallace has moved up in Florida and may now be able to deny Nixon the state's 14 electoral votes. Republicans are heartened, however, by slippage from the third-party candidate in South Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia. The breakdown...
...HUMPHREY LEADING: District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island and West Virginia. Total electoral votes...
...NIXON HUMPHREY...
...most of this long election year, the "real" Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey have eluded the most studious candidate watchers. As Humphrey whirled about the country, occasionally switching positions or contradicting himself, it sometimes seemed as if there were too many of him to pin down. Nixon tiptoed over the hustings, scrupulously avoiding mistakes and evading debate, sometimes giving the impression that there was too little of him to pin down. The most important question for voters, of course, is what kind of President each would make...
Efficiency. Of the two, Nixon is by far the better organizer and administrator. He has given serious thought to making government perform more efficiently. He would be likely to insist on high performance by subordinates, just as he has done to excellent effect with his campaign organization. Humphrey has pointed out a number of times that the Bible is unconcerned with efficiency but deeply involved with compassion. On the day-to-day operating level, Humphrey could be expected to concern himself with more trivia than Nixon, to spread himself thinner, to put up with more intramural disorder...