Word: oregon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy should have been more prudent. Oregon is dovish, and McCarthy, as the first antiwar candidate in the race, was much better known there than in Indiana and Nebraska, where recognition was a major problem. Oregon is also an overwhelmingly white, middle-class state with none of the substantial minority blocs that Kennedy has come to count on for support. For once, McCarthy forces out-organized and even outspent Kennedy's camp, but it was Kennedy who conveyed the giant's presence and McCarthy the shepherd...
...Kennedy realized that he was lagging. A few hours before Oregon's polls opened, Kennedy said of the campaign: "Sometimes I wished they'd booed me or kicked me or done something. I just couldn't get much response." By then it was too late. McCarthy got 45% of the vote, Kennedy 39%, Johnson (whose abdication came too late to permit his removal from the ballot) 12%, and Humphrey 4%, as a write-in candidate. It was the first defeat suffered by any of the three Kennedy brothers in the 27 primary and general-election campaigns they...
...candidate that I was before Oregon," Bobby acknowledged. Changing his tactics, he at last began to answer McCarthy's attacks directly and agreed to a joint television appearance-though it hardly developed into a debate...
...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's 130-vote delegation met for the first time and, ignoring pleas from...
...Republican side, Nixon is in an even stronger position because he has combined effective courtship of delegates in non-primary states with a sweep of the primaries. Oregon was his most impressive win of all. More than in Nebraska, his absentee rivals, Rockefeller and Reagan, had the benefit of well-financed publicity drives aimed at cutting down Nixon's plurality. Yet Nixon smashed all public and private predictions to amass 73% of the vote, compared with 23% for Reagan, who was on the ballot, and a 4% write-in for Rockefeller...