Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order, the cities, and even inflation. The chance of a bombing pause brought it back into sudden political prominence. Both Nixon and Humphrey strategists agree that a break in the war could help Humphrey, the Administration's defender, by as much as two percentage points in the popular vote on Election Day. With such big, key states as New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan now rated as tossups, a bombing halt could conceivably give Humphrey a significant though probably not decisive boost in electoral votes...
...shrewder and more adroit diplomat-in-chief than Humphrey, whose impetuosity and trustfulness could prove to be serious liabilities. Humphrey often seems too ready to believe the last person he has talked to and too easily impressed by foreign leaders. Though Nixon has never been particularly popular among America's allies (or foes), he would be cooler, more concerned with basic geopolitics than with the feeling of the moment...
...from the ballot, thus preserving Humphrey's slim chance to win the state's 43 electoral votes. Yet, in campaigning for antiwar congression?! candidates in California, McCarthy has done nothing to discourage a massive write-in vote for himself. In California, this could cost Humphrey 400,000 popular votes and throw the state's 40 electoral votes to Nixon...
...winner until returns from California two days later gave Woodrow Wilson the state by some 4,000 votes out of the nearly 1,000,000 cast. Less than one vote per precinct could have swung the election to Hughes. In 1960, John Kennedy beat Nixon by only 112,803 popular votes out of 68.8 million. Less than one vote per precinct would have given Nixon a popular victory...
...danger exists--though it's remote--that the philosophy of turning from being an inevitable loser to an inevitable winner could become so popular that the election would be unbalanced enough to put Wallace or Humphrey in office. Indeed in such a case, Nixon would have to be called into the alliance by the unofficial umpire of the movement to stalemate the election; activists in California and almost every state west of the Mississippi, taking their cue from the polls, would start pushing Nixon...