Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of the white, working-class precincts that gave George Wallace a heavy vote in the 1964 Democratic primary. He turned on the electorate in low-income neighborhoods, where voting is not habitual, to produce solid crowds at the polls. And he succeeded in the face of several handicaps. Indiana is a basically conservative state. The Democratic organization, labor-union leadership and the state's two largest newspapers did their best to torpedo Kennedy...
...candidate this year, and a loss might well have crippled him. The win would have been sweeter, of course, had it been against his prime opponent, Hubert Humphrey, but Humphrey's name will be on no presidential primary ballots this year. On the same day that Kennedy carried Indiana, however, a Kennedy slate of delegates defeated pro-Humphrey candidates with surprising ease in the District of Columbia primary-a contest that Humphrey, with better organizational work, might have won. Kennedy will get all of the District's 23 votes...
...significance of Indiana, from Kennedy's viewpoint, was not that it demonstrated overwhelming strength or that it promised victory at the Chicago convention; it did neither. Rather, it demonstrated his survival power in hostile territory. Uncommitted party leaders in such large states as Illinois and Michigan, regardless of their personal feelings toward Kennedy, must respect a candidate who fights hard and pulls well in urban areas. Those who might have been tempted to come out soon for Humphrey now have an excuse to wait and see. Indiana also gave Kennedy a nudge in the right direction for this week...
Omaha Omen. McCarthy tried mightily to make his 27% in Indiana sound like a majority; some early projections had credited him with less. "We've tested the enemy now, and we know his techniques," he declared. "We know his weaknesses." But it was McCarthy's weaknesses-of organization, among Negro voters and as a general campaigner-that were laid bare. Many professionals have been saying that the McCarthy bloom would not survive the summer, and for McCarthy summer may come cruel and early...
...After Indiana, McCarthy went to Nebraska for two days of dispirited campaigning before small crowds. Three persons met him at the airport in Lincoln, and two of them were Kennedy advance men. To some, it seemed as if McCarthy had already given up on Nebraska. But he toughened his approach to the extent of needling Kennedy repeatedly, accusing him of such failings as not knowing from which side to milk a cow (from the animal's right) and voting against meat-import restrictions. But he got little response from the cattlemen...