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Opinion surveys usefully supplement-but can never replace-our own reportage and analyses. Even before the pollsters were at work, our reporters had been patrolling Florida and jetting along elsewhere with the numerous contenders. Simmons Fentress, Dean Fischer and John Austin of our Washington bureau were in the state for...
Guinea Pigs. Significantly, that barometer of public opinion, Hubert Humphrey, supported the President. "Thank goodness," he said, "that at long last he has been able to get his finger in the air and sense what's going on and has decided to say amen to some of the things...
McGovern is closer to the mark than is Muskie. But what remains unclear is what exactly do the Wallace people want? Do they want to return to segregation? Certainly some of the voters in Florida would like that--especially the people in the pinewoods area of the pan handle who...
Without a doubt, Wallace (like Nixon) has exploited the issue of busing for his own purposes. In many cases, new busing plans for integration cause far less inconvenience than old busing plans which voters supported to keep the schools segregated. It is fine (and perfectly correct) to say that socially...
Sadly, this theory explains only part of the Wallace vote. Many Wallace votes clearly had a great deal to do with class interests. More 1968 Wallace voters identified themselves as working class than did those of Nixon or Humphrey. But Wallace didn't campaign in Florida only on the issues...