Word: humphreyism
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...difference is more subtle and more important. Hart is the best man to defeat Reagan, because he is uncluttered with the remnants of the Democratic past. One must be wary of a candidate who ends his speeches with a climatic "I am ready to be President" or "Hubert Humphrey was like a father to me." Mondale consciously huddles in the shadow of Hamphrey and, while muttering the name "Jimmy Carter" only in muted tones, advocates a Carter platform that was soundly repudiated by the American electorate in 1980. We are cynical about Mondale's call for a "return...
Other vulnerable Republican Senators include Thad Cochran of Mississippi, who, like Helms and Jepsen, has trailed his Democratic challenger in polls, Gordon J. Humphrey of New Hampshire, and Rudy Boschwitz of Minnesota. Observers say Walter F. Mondale, also from Minnesota, could play a role in Boschwitz's fate, if he lands the Democratic presidential nomination. Mondale's ticket would rouse a strong Democratic turnout at the Minnesota polls in November...
Whether or not polls affect the outcome of elections, candidates faring poorly in polls have traditionally sought to discredit them. During the 1968 presidential campaign, when most polls showed Hubert H. Humphrey trailing Richard M. Nixon by a wide margin, Humphrey once called a press conference to change that the Gallup Poll the views of Blacks. More recently, Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King complained that he underperformed in polls that failed to include newly registered voters among those surveyed...
...deficiencies of his own, achieve such a solid lead in the Democratic race? Only a decade ago, he withdrew from the primaries with one of the most self-damning confessions in recent political memory: "I do not have the overwhelming desire to be President." Even his Minnesota mentor, Hubert Humphrey, wondered whether Mondale had "fire in the belly." That question, which once seemed an obstacle to Mondale's presidential ambitions, has been laid to rest. These days Fritz's boilers glow red hot as he assails Reagan for replacing the New Deal with "the double deal" and promoting...
Nothing seemed to symbolize the disarray and divisiveness more than the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. Bloody battles erupted in the streets between brutal police and young radicals, and the party nominated Hubert Humphrey, who privately was a critic of the war but who remained the public heir to Johnson's policies...