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...win in November...
With 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, Nixon should carry 239; Humphrey, 215; Alabama's former Governor George Wallace, 17; and 67 are so close as to be uncallable. The tossups are Iowa, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Thus Pennsylvania lives up to its name as the Keystone State: without its electoral votes, Nixon would have to win virtually all of the other close states to go over the top; without its votes, Humphrey could not win, period...
probably carry New York, Connecticut, Illinois and Ohio among the states now trending toward the Democrats. He might well win in all four tossup states. He might also make some other gains in the East, but would lose heavily in the South. The electoral-vote outlook would be: Rockefeller, 332; Humphrey, 171; Wallace, 17; and 18 in doubt. (For a region-by-region analysis, see below...
...EAST: Democratic Romp Of the region's 149 electoral votes, Hubert Humphrey may win 79 and Richard Nixon 24, with 46 uncertain. For Humphrey: Connecticut (8), District of Columbia (3), Massachusetts (14), New York (43), Rhode Island (4) and West Virginia (7). For Nixon: Delaware (3), Maine (4), Maryland (10), New Hampshire (4) and Vermont...
...baseball bromide holds that the team leading its league on Independence Day will win the pennant. Indeed, in the 67 seasons since 1901, the National League leader on July 4 has won it 40 times, the American League leader a full 45. And that's how it looks again this year. In one of the dullest seasons in years-with the result that attendance is down 5% from 1967 -neither league can lay claim to anything remotely resembling a pennant race. In the National League last week, the St. Louis Cardinals were coasting along with a steady 61-game...