Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first primary in which candidates risk being eliminated. Rural and industrial, populated by blue-collar workers, farmers, ethnic minorities and students, Wisconsin is known for its independent, sophisticated and erratic voting behavior; it was the home of Senator Joe McCarthy, but also of Robert LaFollette. John Kennedy undercut Humphrey there in 1960, and it was on the eve of the 1968 Wisconsin primary that Lyndon Johnson withdrew from the race, just before Eugene McCarthy swept the state...
Boost. Edmund Muskie is going into Wisconsin with a psychological boost. Disappointed in New Hampshire and badly embarrassed in Florida, where Hubert Humphrey emerged a strong second behind George Wallace, Muskie captured 63% of the vote in a preferential poll against Eugene McCarthy last week in Illinois. Beating McCarthy was not exactly a triumph; Clean Gene was not taken seriously as a presidential contender, although he did campaign industriously. McCarthy's vote in part represented an informal coalition of "stop Muskie" voters, including supporters of Humphrey, George McGovern, John Lindsay and even Edward Kennedy, who has a hardcore following...
Muskie is testing a new strategy. He has begun attacking his Democratic opponents on the right-not only Wallace but also Humphrey and Henry Jackson, whom he criticized last week for their support of the ABM system and the $8 billion space shuttle. But he has not attacked those to his left-Lindsay, McGovern and McCarthy. The reason, as Adviser Jack English says, is that he hopes to be "the surviving candidate on the left," while Humphrey emerges as the choice of the party's "establishment"-businessmen, old-line politicians and entrenched union leaders...
Diehards. In Wisconsin, the man to beat will be Humphrey. Because of his years as Senator from next-door Minnesota, Humphrey enjoys broad support from labor unions and farmers. A Public Broadcasting Service poll last week showed Humphrey with 18%, McGovern with 16% and Muskie with 13%. Says a Muskie organizer in Wisconsin: "Humphrey has diehard support. I myself won't watch him on TV for fear I'll weaken. For most of us here, Hubert is more than a candidate. He is a blood brother...
...stake are all 67 delegates to the Democratic convention. Some observers rate Humphrey a slight favorite because his home state, Minnesota, is a bordering