Word: nebraska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within hours of Romney's rocketing exit, Nixon and Rockefeller were adjusting to the new rules of play. Nixon, the sole surviving announced candidate of stature, had been cruelly deprived of an easy victim in at least three primaries: New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Nebraska. He had to find someone-or something-to run against and prove his ballot-box muscle. But Nixon's status was clear, his rhetoric free of cloying coyness, his organization smoothly functioning. For Rockefeller, the adjustment was far more complex...
...deadlines for Nebraska, Oregon and Indiana fall one after another this month, Rockefeller will doubtless be criticized for his decision to remain aloof, but it seems unlikely that he will reconsider at this stage. Yet his drive needs some impetus. By week's end he had already given tacit consent to the formation of Rockefeller-for-President groups in each state, and organizational work was beginning. These units may soon be meshed into a national organization. It is still questionable whether a draft can be induced in this manner for Rockefeller. Moreover, by boycotting the primaries he will...
Five weeks before the New Hampshire primary, Richard Nixon is the odds-on favorite to sink George Romney. Michigan's Governor hopes to bob up for the April 2 primary in Wisconsin, where he was stumping last week, and the May 14 Nebraska test, but Nixon is expected to submerge him in both those places as well...
...prospect of losing some independent supporters was only one of Romney's afflictions. In New Hampshire, a $10,000 poll financed by Romney's national organization showed that Nixon's 2-to-l lead has grown to nearly 3 to 1. Republican leaders in Wisconsin, Nebraska and Oregon, where primaries will be decided in April and May, believe that Nixon would clean up if the elections were held...
...runs the war. Atop that, 1,271 Cornell signers sent McCarthy a telegram of good cheer. Of the five state primaries he has promised to enter, he was credited with solid strength in three: California, Oregon and Wisconsin. He has also announced that he will run in Massachusetts and Nebraska...