Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thirds of the students voting in a college-wide straw poll conducted yesterday indicated that, given the chance, they would vote for Hubert Humphrey if they were old enough. Students who said that they would not vote edged out those indicating a preference for Richard Nixon, with about ten per cent of the vote in each category. Nearly 3000 students--about 50 per cent of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduates--responded to the poll. Eldridge Cleaver, the Peace and Freedom Party candidate, came in fourth with five per cent of the vote, followed by Eugene McCarthy, who received about four per cent...
...danger exists--though it's remote--that the philosophy of turning from being an inevitable loser to an inevitable winner could become so popular that the election would be unbalanced enough to put Wallace or Humphrey in office. Indeed in such a case, Nixon would have to be called into the alliance by the unofficial umpire of the movement to stalemate the election; activists in California and almost every state west of the Mississippi, taking their cue from the polls, would start pushing Nixon...
...aesthetic perfection of a circle. People in most states of the Union get to vote for the man who is closest to their individual sympathies, and yet achieve a common goal with people all across the country with different sympathies who voted differently. People in Massachusetts can vote for Humphrey without fear of having helped his election to office because the actual choosing of the President will be out of the hands of the voting public...
Currently, people in Maine, Mass., R.I., D.C., Minn., Mich., N.Y., Pa., Conn., Ill., and W.Va. should vote for Humphrey (169 electoral votes...
...very well for us to stand high on our principles by refusing to vote for Humphrey (I assume that neither Nixon nor Wallace was seriously considered), but it is worth remembering that if Nixon is elected, particularly with a strong Wallace vote pulling him to the right, it is not we in the universities who are going to suffer--it is the poor, both in the cities and the countryside whose well-being will be jeopardized by what happens. There is nothing easier than being true to one's convictions when only the helpless will be hurt by them. Nicholas...