Word: solidness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the latest batch of polls from New Hampshire showed him running a dismal 15% to Nixon's 75%, with the rest of the vote scattered over other candidates. Also, he was about to head into a new session with his state legislature, and some upstate Republicans, solid for Nixon, had threatened to give Rockefeller embarrassing trouble at home (adding to the circumstance that Tom Dewey and other Manhattan G.O.P. bigwigs had cold-shouldered him). Insiders reported that Rocky had all but decided to bow out before starting on his Midwestern trip, had even authorized a preliminary draft...