Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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California dangled its 40 electoral votes before the nation, preventing many from going to sleep. At 5:00 this morning, only 26 per cent of its vote had been counted--giving Nixon 47 per cent and Humphrey 46 per cent. Alan Cranston beat conservative Max Rafferty for Tom Kuchel's old seat in the Senate...
Nixon again with 51 per cent over Humphrey who got 41 per cent of the vote. Peter Dominick defeated Steve McNichols to go back to the Senate...
...Humphrey carried the state. Democratic incumbent Sen. Abraham Ribicoff swept to re-election, beating Republican Edwin H. May, a former congressman. May centered his attack on Ribicoff's support of George McGovern for president and on the speech Ribicoff gave at the Democratic convention denouncing the "gestapo tactis" of the Chicago police. There was no change in the House delegation...
...Humphrey's last-minute surge fell just a bit short in the Keystone State. Nixon carried its potent package of 3 electoral votes by a 45 to 43 per cent margin, with Wallace picking up the remaining 12 per cent...
...expected, Humphrey carried the nation's capitol by a comfortable margin, 78 per cent...