Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page two you read what the anti-Humphrey forces plan to do at a general national level. Here, state by state, you can see how they are progressing and what the individual plans are. Compiled by ROBERT H. KRIM...
...demonstrated popular support in all party primaries. The name of the game is "Big Daddy" Speaker Jesse Unruh who wants the gubernatorial nod in 1970. Up against Kennedy-man Unruh in '70 will probably be San Francisco Mayor "the John Lindsay of the West" Joseph Alioto who, though nominating Humphrey in Chicago, is still very much a liberal on policy...
...Kennedy slate won the May 7 primary defeating a pro-Humphrey slate. Under the Rev. Channing E. Phillips the D.C. anti-Administration--and to a large extent progressive black--forces have taken control of the party. The Phillips leadership will probably join the new Democratic Coalition...
With the impending Humphrey disaster which will probably carry the senatorial candidate down to defeat, an active liberal campaign by Kennedyite Michael Mills for the 1969 gubernatorial nomination against the dispirited regulars could conceivably put Mills in office. Once in office the patronage--which still controls vitually all the politics in the poverty-stricken eastern part of the state--could give the liberals control...
Following Humphrey's defeat in November, the new liberal coalition of urban blacks and white suburbanites centered around Detroit and Lansing will in all probability take control of the party from old, worn labor-liberal leadership. In the early August party primaries, however, the bi-racial coalition which now calls itself the New Caucus took more than forty per cent of the state. Their muscle was reflected in the September 1 state convention when party leaders in a harmony effort neglected to bring up a resolution calling for a Humphrey endorsement. With Humphrey's anticipated defeat, New Caucus forces will...