Word: minnesotan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were counting him out of the presidential race, McCarthy, as always, relied upon his almost mystic and so far well-justified faith in the explosive unpredictability of this year's politics. Emerging from six days of seclusion in his Washington house following Robert Kennedy's assassination, the Minnesotan slipped into the White House for a 40-minute conference with the President, in midweek flew to New York to take up the race again...
Similarly, 94 of Michigan's 96 votes are expected to be solidly arrayed for the Vice President. While McCarthy will doubtless inherit pockets of delegate strength formerly pledged to Kennedy, the Minnesotan's unorthodox style does not endear him to Democratic party professionals, who have tended to favor either Kennedy or Humphrey. With the important primaries over, the search for delegates will shift from the polls to political clubhouses-an uncongenial environment for the professorial Senator...
Pennsylvania Pressure. While the vote was certainly a moral victory for the durable Minnesotan, few powers in the party yet view him as a serious possibility for the nomination. By slowing Kennedy, he increased Humphrey's already strong pulling power in the tug of war for convention delegates. The Vice President was adding to his long lead even before Oregon's votes were counted. In Florida, a slate of delegates pledged to Senator George Smathers as a favorite son, but favorable to Humphrey, captured 55 of the state's 63 convention votes. Members of Pennsylvania...
...Hubert. If he dropped out of the race, McCarthy told a TV interviewer, he would prefer Humphrey to Kennedy. Realizing his error-many of his anti-Administration supporters would leave him if they thought he was merely playing the spoiler's role to block Kennedy-the Minnesotan later hedged his statement, then took a jab at reporters who refused to accept his backtracking. "The people who are with me who seem to be hippies are really the national press," he told an audience at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos...
...Last Push. Oregon and California will present new problems to Kennedy. Oregon is underdog territory, and McCarthy's campaign there is better organized than it was in either Nebraska or Indiana. Although the Minnesotan himself appears discouraged, his troops on the West Coast seem to be of a mood to give one last push for Gene. Kennedy enjoys support from the regular Democratic organization in Oregon, but that is puny by any reckoning in that anti-organization state. And some Oregonians remember that Bobby, as a Senate investigator in 1957, was instrumental in getting Portland's Mayor Terry Schrunk tried...