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McCarthy's campaign seemed to be peaking exactly on time. In St. Louis, 12,500 supporters packed into Kiel Auditorium for a McCarthy rally while 2,000 more listened outside. They cheered so fervently that they even brought a tear to the unemotional Minnesotan's eye. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden on what supporters called "M Night," another 20,000 gathered. Closed-circuit television piped his speech to 22 auditoriums through the country, where 160,000 more heard him. He faces heavy campaign debts-but the faithful that night alone pledged or contributed...
...never notably enthusiastic, has been increasingly indifferent of late, if not outright hostile. For weeks, despite his self-imposed obligation to defend the Johnson Administration and its policies, the Vice President has sought assiduously to outline the prospect of an independent, innovative Humphrey regime. To date, however, the exuberant Minnesotan has had to take consolation from delegate arithmetic rather than the roar of the crowd...
Over the Wreckage. Last week's Gallup poll was no tonic for Humphrey. It showed fellow Minnesotan Eugene McCarthy holding thin leads over both Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller. Against Nixon, reported the poll, Humphrey would also win, but he would merely tie with Rocky. Since last month, all of the candidates have been holding comparatively steady in the polls, except for Alabama's George Wallace, who has now inched as high as 21% in the standoff between Rockefeller and Humphrey...
...striving for freshness, the New Politics of '68 is really more a matter of style than substance. Eugene McCarthy, who seems a paragon of the New Politics-challenging his party's Establishment, rallying the forces of dissent-is paradoxically conservative in many ways. The wry, witty Minnesotan, like Rockefeller and Nixon, would emphasize state and local responsibilities over federal control, and decentralize the office of the presidency, delegating many more duties to the Cabinet. Indeed, even his antiwar stand links aspects of conservatism with liberalism, appealing to residual isolationist sentiment on the right...
...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...