Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...states that has always been regarded as leaning to Humphrey, Hawaii delivered its four electoral votes late in the evening, re-elected Democratic Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, and returned both of the state's incumbent Democratic Congressmen...
Nixon won this state handily with 65 per cent to overwhelm Humphrey's 24 and Wallace's 11. Incumbent dove Frank Church won his Senate seat over his challenger, Fred Handel...
Illinois was a real cliff-hanger. Humphrey took a strong lead with the Chicago-Cook County Democratic vote, but Nixon came on later with the downstate returns. When just over half the vote was in, Nixon moved into the lead to stay...
...first border state to indicate that Wallace's strength would be held to the Deep South. Nixon's strategists postulated a "periphery theory" which required him to carry the border states, and in Kentucky, at least, it paid off. Nixon received 44 per cent of the vote, Humphrey 38 per cent, and Wallace, an amazingly small 18 per cent...
Evidently, Maryland knew Spiro Agnew too well. With 98 per cent of its precincts in, Humphrey had carried the state 43 to 41. But his coattails weren't quite broad enough for incumbent Sen. Dan Brewster, who lost to Republican Charles Mathias...