Word: humphrey
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Thus, as it caromed out of the long and expensive primary spring, the slightly dazed Democratic Party found itself confronting something close to a fait accompli. Hubert Humphrey, far behind with 324½ delegates, vowed to fight on, in fading hopes that the convention arithmetic might still be changed. Maine's Edmund Muskie, an inactive candidate, late last week declined to take himself out of the race and free his 172 delegates...
...hopes of both Humphrey and Muskie may have been tinged with a lingering disbelief. Here was plain, slow-spoken George McGovern, minister's son, prairie populist, leading the armies of commitment and ideological chic. However ruggedly colorless the driver, his bandwagon rolled flamboyantly on, bright with the fresh-faced young and the movie stars and intellectuals who had found their new political vehicle. Behind a superbly organized and financed army of volunteers, McGovern had all but won the delegate battle through the primaries and state conventions. It was a neat touch that he was playing by the party reform...
Desptle his high delegate count, McGovern's performance to date is not entirely persuasive proof that his is the future's voice. Hubert Humphrey still leads McGovern in total popular votes cast during Ihe primaries-4,051,340 to 3,950,394. McGovern lost in New Hampshire, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland and Michigan. Until last week, he had won preference ballots in Nebraska, Massachusetls, Wisconsin, Oregon and Rhode Island. The most important of these states, Wisconsin, gave McGovern only 29.5%, while Wallace gol 22% and Humphrey 20.7%. McGovern simply seemed a startling viclor because he had started...
...California quite as spectacular as the winner-take-all provision made them seem. A week before the primary, Mervin Field's California poll showed McGovern ahead by an astonishing 20%. The poll itself became an issue in the race, perhaps breeding overconfidence in the McGovern ranks, perhaps discouraging Humphrey workers. As it turned out, McGovern won by only 5%-44% to Humphrey's 39%. While the vote reflected a broadening McGovern constituency (see box), he had outspent Humphrey by $2 million to $500,000. Humphrey's advance work was atrocious and his press relations opaque...
...there any way that McGovern might be stopped short of a first-ballot nomination? Both Muskie and Humphrey seem to hold on to some wan hope. Muskie, after a night of soul-searching and consultation with his advisers, decided against throwing his strength to McGovern and guaranteeing his first-ballot nomination. Said Muskie: "If reform of the Democratic Party means anything, it means that the nominee of the party must be selected in an open convention...