Word: narrowness
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Ironically, in a record turnout of more than 72 million, Nixon's victory was painfully narrow-though a triumph in personal terms. With 93% of the unofficial count in, Nixon had 29,565,052 (43%); Hubert Humphrey, 29,539,500 (43%); and George Wallace, 9,181,466 (13%). The indicated electoral vote was 290 for Nixon, 203 for Humphrey and 45 for Wallace. Contrary to many predictions, the voters showed no inclination to boycott the election. Nor were they so angry or disillusioned as to waste inordinate numbers of votes on splinter parties...
...were almost unanimous for Humphrey, showing no faith whatever in Nixon's promise to give blacks "a piece of the action." The Northeast was Humphrey country, with the important exception of New Jersey, where Governor Richard Hughes blamed what he termed Wallace's "hate vote" for the narrow Democratic defeat. Nixon and Wallace divided the South, except for Texas. Nixon dominated most of the Midwestern and Western states. Historically, there is nothing too unusual about minority Presidents. In the 37 elections since the first serious attempt to count the popular vote, this was the 15th won with less...
...Richard Milhous Nixon became President-elect of the U.S. by the narrowest of margins-so narrow that it may even impede his conduct of the office. At the beginning of his campaign, Nixon held a seemingly unassailable lead. By the time Illinois' 26 electoral votes put him over the 270 mark, it was clear that his lead had been whittled almost to the vanishing point, and that he had come close to the most bitter defeat of his career...
...sort of strategy designed to fire imaginations. But it can also be argued that the Democrats-the majority party-were bound to recover from their low point, and that Nixon had to play it safe. His aides certainly take this view. They insisted even after Nixon's narrow electoral escape that if they had to do it again, they would change nothing-including the surely damaging decision not to debate Democratic Candidate Hubert Humphrey...
...reconciling an alienated left and an uneasy right, of bringing together Negroes and young people, Wallace followers and middle-class Americans who feel an ever more crushing burden of taxes. He has yet to persuade a great number of citizens that he is wholly to be trusted. His narrow victory may complicate the task. "The problem will not be easy," he acknowledged this week. "We are confronted with the generation gap; we are confronted also with a racial gap. But I am going to try to establish communications with every one of the dissenting groups...