Word: humphrey
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Observers here are rating the race a toss up between Humphrey, Muskie and McGovern. Because he may be helped by Republican cross-over votes, George Wallace's performance is impossible to predict...
Jackson's advisers theorize that in the end Wallace cannot get the nomination. They foresee that the convention may well be faced with choosing between Humphrey and McGovern -one too shopworn, one too liberal for the party's mood-and thus may decide on Jackson. Yet Jackson has huge handicaps that make the scenario unlikely: he is a colorless speaker and is still not well known nationally...
Assessing the primaries to date, Kennedy agrees that "the situation is clearly far more wide open than it was." He believes that only Muskie and Humphrey have a chance to get the nomination. He told TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey that he wants another Democrat to win and serve, while he gains experience through eight more years in the Senate. Even if the polls showed the Democratic nominee certain to lose, Kennedy would stay out, as races can turn about quickly. Humphrey, he recalled, trailed Nixon by 15 points in the polls in 1968 but finished so strongly that he nearly...
ISSUES. While no candidate save Wallace showed any strength on the busing issue, Humphrey and especially Jackson ran strongly on the basis of their stands on the economy. According to voters, the two most compelling reasons for selecting a candidate were 1) "I agree with how he or she stands on particular issues," and 2) He or she "understands the problems of people like me." The survey revealed that the issues that voters said were of the greatest importance-ending the Viet Nam War and improving the economy-were not decisive in choosing a candidate. Asked to rank the chief...
NIXON. If pitted against Nixon, not a single Democratic candidate would get a majority of the votes in the presidential election. According to the views of those interviewed, Nixon would win easily against Wallace, Jackson, Lindsay or McGovern. Against Humphrey, Nixon shows a slight edge (48% to 47%, 5% undecided). Only Muskie bests Nixon by the slim margin of 46% to 45%, with 9% undecided. However, should Wallace end up running for President, the evidence, in Florida at least, is that his third-party candidacy might aid the Democratic nominee and hurt Nixon badly. A resounding 86% of those...