Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actual result of the election as decided in the House is of no importance. The two parties will pick one of their own (read: Humphrey or Nixon) to be President. It is even possible that Republicans in New York would elect a slate of electors who would bolt, to the man, from Nixon to Rockefeller giving him forty-three electoral votes which would be hypothetically more than the candidate who finished third thereby making Rockefeller one of the three Constitutional candidates for the office and the eventual compromise pick for President...
...Whichever-President will have the mandate of only a small part of the population, a situation which Richard Nixon said in Boston would make it impossible for the President to rule. A weak Presidency can only hurt the conservatives (Nixon) because the Congress wouldn't let Humphrey do anything liberal even if he were elected...
VOTING differently depending on what state you're in isn't as simple as it sounds. Right now the plan divides states to stop Nixon. For example, Illinois is told to go Humphrey, and Indiana for Wallace...
...usual, people should work actively for the campaign they believe in. A campaigner in Illinois will be collaring blue collar workers and telling them that Wallace is looney. If the polls then show a shift in sentiment giving Wallace a lead over Humphrey, the campaigner will start telling them that Nixon isn't as much of a reactionary as they think and they'd better make it with Wallace soon. But ostensibly being a member of the Humphrey campaign staff, he's in a great position to convert Humphrey votes. And, in fact, it is from the Humphrey camp that...
There is no gratification in having voted (meaninglessly) and lost. The plan for throwing the election into the House takes the likely losers (Humphrey and Wallace people) and bands them together into inevitable winners. For the plan calls for people to vote specifically for those candidates who are most likely to win and for just that reason; if it is put into effect, more people (at least the majority in every state) will be gratified than ever before in the history of U.S. elections...