Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard M. Nixon remains a clear favorite to win the Presidency today despite a last-minute Louis Harris poll showing Hubert H. Humphrey ahead, 43 to 40 per cent...
...While Humphrey aides talk optimistically about an upset, a state-by-state breakdown presents them with a much bleaker picture than do the national polls, conceded by both Harris and George Gallup to be inconclusive...
John F. Kennedy '40, in narrowly beating Nixon eight years ago, won the states of New York, Texas, Pennsylvania and Illinois. Humphrey is given a good chance in the first, a fair one in the second, not much hope in the third, and none at all in the fourth...
...hold Nixon below the critical 270-mark in the Electoral College, Humphrey must take, besides those states conceded him, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Kentucky, Connecticut, Washington and Delaware. Either he or George Wallace must eke out a majority in Tennessee, South Carolina, and Arkansas, and Wallace must otherwise hold firm...
Richard Cluster '68, a staff member on the SDS newspaper, The Old MOLE, said SDS recognizes differences between Humphrey and Nixon, but insists it is pointless to vote for either...