Word: ticket
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most powerful favorite son of all is California's Ronald Reagan, whose 86 convention votes just might wind up in Rockefeller's column if Reagan's own dark-horse position blacks out completely and if a Rockefeller-Reagan ticket can then be constructed. A deal with Reagan would almost certainly devalue Rockefeller's ultimate trump card-his appeal to Democrats and independents in the general election-but in presidential politics the nomination comes first...
Student Cheer. Whatever the outcome, at least one politician, Lyndon Johnson, was keeping his options open, hinting at his Washington press conference that he might not campaign for the party this year if the ticket does not suit him. "I would not want to go into that matter at this time," he told a reporter. "I'll be glad to visit with you about it after the convention and we see what the situation...
...Humphrey-Kennedy ticket would have a certain irony. Humphrey Biographer Winthrop Griffith recalls a scene at the Los Angeles convention when John Kennedy was on the brink of victory. Bobby, a finger thrust at Hubert's chest, demanded the immediate delivery of Minnesota's delegates, "or else." Humphrey poked back and said: "Bobby, go to hell...
...disadvantage of this pairing, of course, is that both he and Humphrey are from Minnesota. The Constitution does not bar two men from one state running together, but it precludes the Electoral College votes of that state from being cast for both men. Thus, if a Humphrey-McCarthy ticket carried Minnesota, the ten electors would either have to split their votes between the two or not vote at all for one of the offices. For this reason, and because of the hard-dying desire for geographic balance?even in the era of nationwide TV and jet travel?no major party...
...stakes in Florida, but he is footsore from his strenuous campaign (27 races in two years) and has also been scratched. There is no shortage of favorite sons: Derby officials predict a field of 17 horses, most of whose owners would happily settle for second spot on a parimutuel ticket. At the moment, the Derby looks like a two-horse race-between a front runner who has scored four stakes victories this year, and a come-from-behind colt with connections in Massachusetts and New York...