Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Harry R. Katz '69 attributed the lack of enthusiasm to the events at Chicago last summer and the club's endorsement of Hubert H. Humphrey last month. The recent victory of Richard M. Nixon, he added, "could only further discourage students from becoming involved in today's American political system...
Nixon won in Utah to add 4 electoral votes to his total. The percentages were about 54 for Nixon, 35 for Humphrey, and 11 for George Wallace. Gov. Rampton won and Republican Wallace Bennet defeated Milton Weilemann to regain his Senate seat...
...Humphrey just edged out Nixon in Washington, avoiding a Nixon sweep in the West. At the same time Governor Dan Evans, Republican Keynote speaker, and Warren Magnuson, senior Democratic Senator were both re-elected by lopsided margins...
...hills of West Virginia, where Humphrey's 1960 Presidential campaign came grinding to a halt, were a good bit kinder to him this time around. He carried the state's 7 electoral votes easily, polling 52 per cent of the vote, to 38 for Nixon and 7 per cent for Wallace...
Nixon won here by some 55 per cent over Humphrey's 36 per cent, and Wallace's 9 per cent showing...