Word: minnesota
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Humphrey can count as safe only four states and the District of Columbia. He holds a precarious edge in Minnesota, his home state, and West Virginia, for a total of 46 electoral votes. In Michigan, Polltaker Frederick Currier found only a single percentage point separating him from Nixon. George Wallace has moved up in Florida and may now be able to deny Nixon the state's 14 electoral votes. Republicans are heartened, however, by slippage from the third-party candidate in South Carolina, Arkansas and Georgia. The breakdown...
...HUMPHREY LEADING: District of Columbia, Hawaii, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island and West Virginia. Total electoral votes...
...same time, he has become a kind of middle-class everyman, relatively devoid of regional associations. Humphrey retains a geographic identification with Minnesota that is more traditional in American politicians...
...election now promises to be extremely close in many states with sizable electoral votes, including Massachusetts (14), Michigan (21), Minnesota (10), Ohio (26), Pennsylvania (29) and Texas (25). The candidate who wins any of those states by only one popular vote will take all of the state's electoral votes in the Electoral College, where a 270-vote majority will make him President. As Wallace keeps telling his supporters: "All we need is a popular plurality in this state...
...night, I say 'Whoopee!' And I want to say I'm proud as Punch to be running for the presidency of the United States! Under Lyndon Johnson I ran for other things-coffee, sandwiches and cigarettes. Nobody's going to call me 'Minnesota Fats' any more. But I could never turn my back on Lyndon Johnson. A year ago, we exchanged friendship rings. He wears his on his left forefinger, and I wear mine proudly in my nose...