Word: thurmond
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Wallace's 13% was impressive in one sense: it was more than twice the combined totals won by Progressive Henry Wallace and Dixiecrat Strom Thurmond in 1948 and was the largest third-party turnout since Robert La Follette garnered nearly 17% in 1924. (Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party ran second with 27.4% in 1912.) However, outside the Deep South his showing shrank dramatically below his standing in the polls through the late summer and early fall. He failed to prove his contention that the "rednecks" he bragged about were sufficiently numerous or widely enough distributed to people...
Ernest Hollings, elected in 1966 to fill an unexpired term, easily defeated his lack-luster Republican opponent in the Senatorial contest. In the Presidential race, Strom Thurmond delivered South Carolina's eight electoral votes to Nixon, with Wallace and Humphrey picking up about 30 per cent each...
...mate. In the interim, Nixon acquired a gut fighter's reputation that softened only after his forced retirement by defeats for the presidency in 1960 and the California governorship in 1962. Now he enjoys the active support of such diverse Republicans as Barry Goldwater and Jacob Javits, Strom Thurmond and Nelson Rockefeller...
...past month's campaigning-even though he has dropped somewhat in at least one poll. In Arkansas he has taken the lead from Humphrey, whose liberalism is anathema to rural Arkies, and might even manage to carry urban Pulaski County (Little Rock). South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond has been stumping the South for Nixon but strangely neglecting South Carolina. Wallace, as a result, has edged ahead. Thurmond's own supporters are so concerned that a Wallace victory would damage the Senator's prestige that they have distributed bumper stickers pleading, HELP STROM, ELECT NIXON...
...welfare mother in Roxbury, face to face, that "the worst of times" will be no worse under Nixon. I dare them to say it to Cesar Chavez. I dare them to tell black children in Mississippi that punishing Humphrey is worth the price of letting a Nixon-Agnew-Thurmond administration halt school desegregation. And if the New Politics dropouts can do all that with straight faces, then I can only marvel at their cynicism and callousness. Or perhaps simply their utter foolishness...