Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, the results proved that McGovern had very nearly beaten Humphrey in a state that should have been natural Humphrey terrain. Unlike Wisconsin, where McGovern's organizers began working months ago, Ohio was not even important to McGovern's plans until just three weeks before the primary. But he outspent Humphrey by more than...
...word for the mood of the voters is "disenchantment." Another term at the Alabama Governor's Montgomery headquarters is "protracted politics"-not a bad description of Wallace's dogged, divisive presidential candidacy, now making its third appearance in eight years. Whatever it is, it is working: Hubert Humphrey edged him by a scant 5% margin in Indiana; George McGovern has carefully ducked him in Florida and Michigan, where busing is a hot issue; Scoop Jackson could never catch fire once Wallace got going. Wallace won last week's Tennessee primary two to one, and at week...
...either Wallace, Humphrey or McGovern-one of us three," Wallace proclaimed cheerfully after a screaming, stomping, Confederate-flag-waving rally last week at Houston's jammed Convention Center Music Hall. After the Indiana primary, Wallace proudly noted that Theodore White (The Making of the President) had observed on TV: "This means they'll have to deal with George Wallace at the convention." Says Wallace: "I think we surely have the balance of power, but I think I have an excellent chance of getting the nomination." Really? "Or a good chance." Sure? "I mean a chance...
...Muskie bandwagon until, regrettably, that is the only one remaining," but held off formally endorsing McGovern in print until last month, lest the publication be dismissed out of hand as a McGovern mouthpiece. Now that Muskie's candidacy has collapsed, the monthly has turned its fire on Hubert Humphrey for his past associations with Viet Nam. The young editor predicts McGovern will go to the convention with 1,200 delegate votes, not far from the 1,509 needed to nominate...
...that "Front Runner" Edmund Muskie has fallen to the rear, much of the campaign's pre-primary political reportage reads in retrospect as if it were about some other election. Through midwinter, most print journalists and TV commentators declined to take Hubert Humphrey seriously, gave George McGovern relatively spare coverage and underestimated George Wallace's strength. The press consensus until New Hampshire strongly implied that Muskie already had it made...