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1968 United States presidential election


00:02:59 1 Historical background
00:06:02 2 Democratic Party nomination
00:06:12 2.1 Other major candidates
00:06:40 2.2 "Favorite Son" candidates
00:07:06 2.3 Enter Eugene McCarthy
00:10:14 2.4 Johnson withdraws
00:16:24 2.5 Contest
00:20:42 2.6 Democratic Convention and antiwar protests
00:24:45 2.7 Endorsements
00:25:58 3 Republican Party nomination
00:26:08 3.1 Other major candidates
00:26:37 3.2 "Favorite Son" candidates
00:27:03 3.3 Primaries
00:30:59 3.4 Republican Convention
00:32:50 4 American Independent Party nomination of George Wallace
00:34:52 4.1 Other parties and candidates
00:35:47 5 General election
00:35:56 5.1 Campaign strategies
00:37:10 5.2 Campaign themes
00:39:49 5.3 Humphrey's comeback and the October surprise
00:42:21 5.4 Nixon campaign sabotage of peace talks
00:46:06 5.5 Election
00:49:20 6 Aftermath
00:52:53 6.1 Results
00:53:28 6.2 Geography of results
00:53:38 6.2.1 Cartographic gallery
00:53:46 6.2.2 Results by state
00:53:55 6.3 Close states
00:54:38 7 Voters
00:55:50 7.1 National voter demographics
00:56:14 7.2 Voter demographics in the South
00:56:38 8 See also
00:57:17 9 Sources



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The United States presidential election of 1968  was the 46th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. The Republican nominee, former Vice President Richard Nixon, defeated the Democratic nominee, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey. Analysts have argued the election of 1968 was a major realigning election as it permanently disrupted the New Deal Coalition that had dominated presidential politics for 36 years.
Incumbent Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson had been the early front-runner for his party's nomination, but he announced his withdrawal from the race after anti-Vietnam War candidate Eugene McCarthy finished second in the New Hampshire primary. McCarthy, former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and Vice President Humphrey emerged as the three major candidates in the Democratic primaries until Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968. Humphrey won the presidential nomination at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, which saw numerous anti-war protests. Nixon entered the 1968 Republican primaries as the front-runner, and he defeated Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, and other candidates at the 1968 Republican National Convention to win his party's nomination. Governor George Wallace of Alabama ran on the American Independent Party ticket, campaigning in favor of racial segregation.
The election year was tumultuous; it was marked by the assassination of Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King Jr., subsequent King assassination riots across the nation, the assassination of Kennedy, and widespread opposition to the Vietnam War across university campuses. Nixon ran on a campaign that promised to restore law and order to the nation's cities and provide new leadership in the Vietnam War. A year later, he would popularize the term "silent majority" to describe those he viewed as being his target voters. He also pursued a "Southern strategy" designed to win conservative Southern white voters who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party. Humphrey promised to continue Johnson's War on Poverty and to support the Civil Rights Movement. Humphrey trailed badly in polls taken in late August but narrowed Nixon's lead after Wallace's candidacy collapsed and Johnson suspended bombing in the Vietnam War.
Nixon won a plurality of the popular vote by a narrow margin, but won by a large margin in the Electoral College, carrying most states outside of the Northeast. Wallace won five states in the Deep South and ran well in some ethnic enclave industrial districts in the North; he is the most recent third party candidate to win a state. This was the first presidential election after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which had led to mass enfranchisement of racial minorities ...