Word: humphrey
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What the voter will be experiencing this year is the new political technology, a combination of sophisticated polling techniques and computerization that has already met with startling success. Employing such methods, Hubert Humphrey won re-election to the Senate in 1970 by one of the largest margins of his career; in a year when voter totals were down, the turnout in Democratic districts in Minnesota rose from 7% to 20%. Similarly, Senator Quentin Burdick of North Dakota was thought to be in a close race, but he turned to the technologists and won by almost a 2-to-l margin...
...begin by lining up volunteers to obtain voter-registration lists, which are transmitted to punch cards. These lists are supplemented with the names of the non-registered, who then become the target of a massive telephone survey. In 1970, for example, Valentine, Sherman & Associates, the firm that worked on Humphrey's return to the Senate, called and classified people in more than 750,000 homes in Minnesota...
...Congress during the period between 1925 and 1935. The Ramblers play almost the entire range of American folk instruments (mouth bow, harmonica, autoharp, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar), in the styles used by such groups as Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, Byrd Moore and his Hot Shots, and Dr. Humphrey Bate and the Possum Hunters, to name but a few of the groups from which the Ramblers derive their repertoire. They play old breakdowns, sing ballads, party songs--in short, whatever the mountain people played...
...Treasury John Connally, the Texas tornado who moved into the job early in the year and quickly developed an amazing rapport with the President. A Democrat who had impressed Nixon by helping him find oil money in his 1968 presidential campaign, despite his own belated support of Hubert Humphrey, Connally had earlier turned down Nixon offers to become Secretary of Defense, but did serve impressively on a committee studying reorganization of the Executive Branch. The acquisition of Connally was another Nixon surprise and success, giving his generally gray Administration new lift and bounce...
...Gilligan endorsement is no guarantee of victory in Ohio. There will probably be plenty of competition in the primary. Before endorsing Muskie, Gilligan phoned Hubert Humphrey to break the news. Disappointed, Humphrey replied: "O.K., but I've got some decisions to make too, and I may be seeing you in Ohio." Humphrey has considerable labor support in the state; disgruntled with Gilligan's Muskie endorsement, the AFL-CIO hierarchy plans to file labor delegate candidates for Humphrey and possibly other contenders. George McGovern also intends to put up a battle...