Question: If Kennedy survived, would he have gone on to receive his party nomination?
About the article "Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy", section "1968 election".

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In early 1960 Stevenson announced that he would not seek a third Democratic presidential nomination, but would accept a draft.
In May 1960 Senator John F. Kennedy, who was actively campaigning for the Democratic nomination, visited Stevenson at his Libertyville home.
Kennedy asked Stevenson for a public endorsement of his candidacy; in exchange Kennedy promised, if elected, to appoint Stevenson as his Secretary of State.
Stevenson refused the offer, which strained relations between the two men.
At the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Stevenson's admirers, led by Eleanor Roosevelt, Agnes Meyer, and such Hollywood celebrities as Dore Schary and Henry Fonda, vigorously promoted him for the nomination, even though he was not an announced candidate.
JFK's campaign manager, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, reportedly threatened Stevenson in a meeting, telling him that unless he placed his brother's name in nomination "you are through"; Stevenson ordered him out of his hotel room.
The night before the balloting Stevenson began working actively for the nomination, calling the leaders of several state delegations to ask for their support.
Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota delivered an impassioned and famous nominating speech for Stevenson, telling the convention to not "reject the man who has made us proud to be Democrats.
Do not leave this prophet without honor in his own party."
However, Kennedy won the nomination on the first ballot with 806 delegate votes; Stevenson finished in fourth place with 79 1/2 votes.
Once Kennedy won the nomination, Stevenson, always an enormously popular public speaker, campaigned actively for him.
Due to his two presidential nominations and previous United Nations experience, Stevenson perceived himself an elder statesman and the natural choice for Secretary of State.
However, according to historian Robert Dallek, "neither Jack nor Bobby thought all that well of Stevenson...they saw him as rather prissy and ineffective.
[Stevenson never met their standard of tough-mindedness."
Stevenson's refusal to publicly endorse Kennedy before the Democratic Convention was something that Kennedy "couldn't forgive", with JFK telling a Stevenson supporter after the election, "I'm not going to give him anything."
The prestigious post of Secretary of State went instead to the (then) little-known Dean Rusk.
However, "although Jack and Bobby would have been just as happy to freeze Stevenson out of the administration, they felt compelled to offer him something" due to his continued support from liberal Democrats.
President Kennedy offered Stevenson the choice of becoming "ambassador to Britain, attorney general (a post that eventually went to Robert Kennedy), or United States Ambassador to the United Nations."
Stevenson accepted the latter position. 
The Chris Dodd presidential campaign of 2008 was launched on January 11, 2007 and ended on January 3, 2008 after a sixth place finish in the Iowa caucuses.
Dodd, the Senior Senator from Connecticut, sought the nomination of the Democratic Party for President of the United States.
Centering his campaign in the strategically important states of Iowa and New Hampshire, he tried to bring forth a platform of change.
Dodd's performance in the opinion polls varied, but in the financial sphere, he had secured some notable and influential endorsements who had sufficiently funded his campaign.
Dodd tried to follow in the pattern of New Englanders who have entered the race for the Democratic nomination and won, including John Kerry, Michael Dukakis, and John F. Kennedy.
If elected, Dodd would have become the second Roman Catholic president (after Kennedy) and the second Connecticut-born president (after George W. Bush).
He would have been the first Senator to win the presidency while in office since Kennedy was elected in 1960.
After his withdrawal from the race, Dodd went on to endorse the eventual winner Barack Obama, and retired from the Senate in 2011. 
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Was president in "Fatherland", a novel by Robert Harris later made into a HBO movie.
In the novel, Nazi Germany won World War II resulting in a far different world by April 1964.
With tensions easing between the world's two major superpowers, a 75-year-old Adolf Hitler welcomes President Kennedy (who was elected in 1960) to a Berlin summit in the interest of fostering détente.
Kennedy was believed by one of the main characters to be a shoo-in for re-election until the truth of the death camps is uncovered on the day of the summit.
President Kennedy was played by Jan Kohout in the movie.
In the novel "K is for Killing" by Daniel Easterman, he becomes the 34th President in 1940 following the assassination of President D. C. Stephenson.
Stephenson was elected Vice President under Charles Lindbergh in 1932, and became President upon arranging for Lindbergh's assassination to prevent him from discovering a secret nuclear weapon collaboration plan with Nazi Germany.
In the novel, Kennedy is Speaker of the House and becomes President when Stephenson is killed by his own wife, but blames it on German agents and uses it as a pretext to sever all ties with Germany.
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.
In "Franz Ferdinand Lives!
A World Without World War I" (2014) by Richard Ned Lebow in which neither World War I nor World War II took place, Kennedy was elected President in 1960 and served two terms.
His First Lady was the former model, Broadway actress and "Winner Take All" hostess Athalia Fetter.
She became a prominent civil rights activist, which resulted in a rapid decline in her husband's popularity.
Although they were portrayed as a fairy tale couple, they often had extremely heated arguments in the White House.
JPK's Attorney General was his younger brother John F. Kennedy.
During an argument with the First Lady, JPK once remarked that he wished that he had married Jack's wife Jacqueline Kennedy as he was certain that she would have been a vacuous First Lady who would remain out of politics.
John F. Kennedy  Still alive in the 1990s in Brad Ferguson's "The World Next Door" and still legally the President, since the US and the whole world were completely devastated in 1962 when the Cuban Missile Crisis turned into all-out nuclear war and no further elections were ever held.
Kennedy is hated and detested by the remnants of the American population, starting to revive by their own efforts in small pockets here and there.
Generally considered "The man who destroyed the country", Kennedy's exact whereabouts are unknown, and he is rumored to be "hiding out in a bunker somewhere".
In James P. Hogan's "The Proteus Operation", Kennedy is elected President in 1972, in an alternate history where Nazi Germany won World War II and the German-Japanese Axis rules all the world except for North America and Australia.
President Kennedy vows "not to give up a single inch of free soil" and engages in an increasingly tense Cold War with the Nazis and Imperial Japanese, facing the bleak possibility of either defeat in the coming hot war or the destruction of the world in a nuclear holocaust.
In 1974, Kennedy sponsors a secret time travel project to send a special commando unit back to 1939, whose intervention eventually creates our own history.
Herbert B. Douglas' story "The Mother of all Murder Trials" is an alternate history in which Jacqueline Bouvier married John G. W. Husted, Jr. rather than John Kennedy.
Kennedy then married Marilyn Monroe and was elected President in 1960 with her at his side.
In their first year, Monroe was a highly successful and glamorous First Lady, but afterwards their marriage went under increasing strain, bitter quarrels and mutual (justified) accusations of infidelity.
Late on the night of September 30, 1962, President Kennedy discovered his wife in bed with his brother Robert F. Kennedy, pulled a gun and killed both of them – being found by White House aides bitterly crying with the smoking gun still in his hand.
A week later Congress unanimously voted to impeach Kennedy and remove him from office, whereupon he was charged with murder.
After dismissing a lawyer who tried to plead "temporary insanity", Kennedy pleaded guilty and specifically asked the court to sentence him to death as "the least which I deserve", refused to appeal the sentence and went to the electric chair after the Pope came to America to personally give him absolution.
His last words were "God bless America – I am ready to do my last duty for my country".
While initially considered a monster, Kennedy's sincere and obvious penitence won him considerable public sympathy and he was widely regarded as "a tragic hero".
The enormous attention to this sensational murder case relegated to the back pages the news of Soviet missiles being placed in Cuba.
President Johnson, who took office on October 1962, contented himself with warning the Soviets that any use of these missiles would be "answered ten-fold" by American missiles placed in Turkey.
In 1965 Johnson – concluding that there was no chance left to topple the Cuba regime – reached a secret deal with Fidel Castro, for removal of US sanctions in return for a Cuban promise not to "export the revolution".
This caused an open breach between Castro and Che Guevara, who was arrested in Havana and executed on treason charges.
In one of the alternate realities featured in "The Coming of the Quantum Cats" by Frederik Pohl, Kennedy was a Senator from Massachusetts in 1986 who was married to a woman named Marilyn.
At the time, Nancy Reagan was President of the United States.
She was considered a strong and assertive President, who successfully guided her version of the United States through the major crisis of an invasion from a different reality.
Her husband Ronald, known as the First Gentleman, was mostly disregarded.
In Stephen Baxter's "Voyage", the assassin's bullets went differently on 22 November 1963, and it was Jacqueline Kennedy who was killed, while her husband John Kennedy survived - though crippled and incapacitated, which forced him to resign and made Lyndon B. Johnson the new President.
As in our history, Richard Nixon was elected in 1968 and on 20 July 1969 conducted a widely broadcast phone call with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Joe Muldoon who were walking on the moon.
However, in this timeline the call was joined by former President Kennedy, who there and then committed the United States to send a manned mission to Mars - which Nixon eventually took up and started implementing in practice.
The Mars flight did eventually take off in 1980, from what was called on this timeline the Jacqueline B. Kennedy Space Center.
In the alternate history "Dark Future" novel series by Kim Newman, Kennedy was defeated by Richard Nixon in the 1960 election after it was discovered that he was having an affair with Marilyn Monroe.
In the short story "The Impeachment of Adlai Stevenson" by David Gerrold included in the anthology "Alternate Presidents", the title character defeated Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 after Eisenhower made the mistake of choosing Joseph McCarthy as his running mate instead of Richard Nixon.
However, Stevenson proved to be an extremely unpopular president, leading to his impeachment and subsequent resignation in August 1958.
Stevenson was succeeded by Kennedy, his untested 41-year-old vice-president who becomes the 35th President.
Although the story ends immediately after Stevenson has decided to resign, it is heavily implied that Nixon, already the front runner for the next Republican nomination, will defeat Kennedy in the 1960 election.
This is due to the public's antipathy towards the Democrats and the fact that Kennedy is a much derided figure due to his recent marriage to the Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe, referred to derisively as "the new Monroe Doctrine."
In the short story "The Kennedy Enterprise" by David Gerrold contained in the anthology "Alternate Kennedys", Kennedy was raised in Hollywood and eventually decided to become an actor.
Although he was cast in numerous films in the 1940s and the 1950s, roles began to dry up by the time that he had reached his mid 40s.
However, in 1966, he was cast in what would become his best known role, namely Captain Jack Logan of the U.S.S.
"Enterprise" (NCC-1701) in the hugely popular science fiction television series "".
In the alternate history novel "The Two Georges" by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss, Kennedy was a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts in 1995.
Although born and raised in the North American Union, Kennedy had a strong sense of his Irish heritage and hated the British Empire for its past and continued transgressions against Ireland from the Great Famine (1845–1852) to the abject poverty and brutal exploitation of Irish miners in the present.
He adopted a separatist stance, which he expressed through the magazine "Common Sense", frequently skirting the edge of legality.
He was suspected of being a member of the terrorist organisation, the Sons of Liberty.
When the Thomas Gainsborough painting "The Two Georges" was stolen from the Governor-General's mansion in New Liverpool in June 1995, Royal American Mounted Police officers Thomas Bushell and Samuel Stanley and the painting's custodian Dr. Kathleen Flannery followed suspected Sons member Joseph Killbride to Boston, they met with Kennedy, who proved combatative in dealing with Bushell and made very subtle and inappropriate advances towards Flannery.
His brother was a Catholic archbishop.
In the first parallel universe featured in "Sliders", the United States was a severely impoverished nation whereas Mexico was an industrial giant and a world power.
Americans emigrated across the Mexican border in droves.
Furthermore, the world was undergoing global cooling.
In this universe, the Twenty-second Amendment, which states that no person may be elected to the presidency more than twice, had seemingly never been ratified.
Consequently, Kennedy was elected to the nation's highest office in every election from 1960 to 1992.
At the time of Quinn Mallory's visit to this universe in September 1994, Kennedy was serving his ninth term as President.
He did not plan to run for re-election in 1996.
He was married to the former Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe.
In a parallel universe featured in the "Sliders" Season Two episode "Time Again and World", Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963 by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
After the Rosenbergs were executed, the director of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover became the 36th President.
As a result of Hoover's rise to power, much of the United States Constitution was abridged and martial law was declared.
In the Second Gettysburg Address, President Hoover spoke out against the ills of civilisation, claiming that democracy was leading to godless amorality and the breakdown of the family unit.
Hoover remained president for 22 years until his death in 1985.
Martial law had effectively rendered the United States a police state by 1996.
In a parallel universe featured in the "Sliders" Season Two episode "Obsession", a young psychic from San Francisco predicted the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 and thereby prevented his death.
Lincoln was so grateful and impressed that he created a cabinet post known as the Prime Oracle, whose job was to predict natural and man made disasters.
He and his successors were so successful that millions of American citizens came to trust and believe in psychic abilities.
Kennedy's own assassination was likewise prevented and he survived until May 1995, when he died at the age of 78 due to complications from Addison's disease.
Attendees at his funeral included his younger brother Robert F. Kennedy and Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. By 1996, the President of the United States was little more than a figurehead for the country as not even the President could question the Prime Oracle's infinite wisdom.
In the "Elseworlds" comic book miniseries "", Kennedy lost the 1960 election to Richard Nixon, who was later assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
However, he was President by 1978.
During his presidency, he had divorced his first wife Jacqueline Kennedy and married Norma Jeane Baker, becoming the first U.S. President to divorce and remarry while in office.
In the film "", a 2004 mockumentary directed by Kevin Willmott which depicts a timeline in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War, completely annexed and absorbed the United States, and perpetuated slavery.
By 1960, when only 29 percent of voters approve of slavery, Roman Catholic Republican John F. Kennedy is elected CSA president over Democrat Richard Nixon.
However, foreign policy such as the Newfoundland Missile Crisis distracts him, and he is unable to implement his domestic agenda before being assassinated.
In the alternate history novel "The Sky People", Kennedy served two full terms as the 35th President from 1961 to 1969.
Although he was initially considered weak on anti-Communist matters, he was elected to a second term in 1964.
His successful handling of the Vietnam War, the Thailand Border Crisis of 1966-1967 and the Six-Day War silenced the majority of his critics.
The key US base on Mars was named after Kennedy.
In the alternate history novel "The Gladiator" by Harry Turtledove, Kennedy's decision to back down during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962 was a signal to the world that the United States was not as serious about fighting the Cold War as it held itself out as being.
After the US withdraw its troops from the Vietnam War in 1968, communists and socialists formed popular fronts in the face of the United States' perceived weakness.
With the Soviet Union's support, these popular fronts were able to successfully topple Western Europe's capitalist and democratic governments and established People's Republics.
The United States was the last nation to fall.
By the end of the 20th Century, the entire world had turned to communism.
By the late 21st century, the United States was seen as harmless and was completely obedient to the Soviet Union.
In the parallel universe featured in "Fringe", the nonagenarian Kennedy was serving as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations in May 2009 but planned to resign his position in order to lead a new US government agency aimed at slowing ecological breakdown.
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy  Patrick Kennedy was elected in 2000 in the story "Prince Pat" by George Alec Effinger in the anthology "Alternate Kennedys", defeating the incumbent Republican, former Secretary of State James A. Baker.
In real life, Patrick Kennedy, son of President John F. Kennedy, was born August 7, 1963, and died two days later of infant respiratory distress syndrome.
This would have made him, at 37, the youngest President in history.
In style and plot, the story parallels the Shakespeare play "Henry V".
Robert F. Kennedy  The novel "A Disturbance of Fate" by Mitchell J. Freedman is premised on Robert Kennedy surviving Sirhan Sirhan's assassination attempt and going on to serve two successful terms as president with Ralph Yarborough as his vice president and eventual successor.
In one of the episodes of "What If?"
on the Discovery Channel, he won the Democratic nomination in 1968 with Revd Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. as his running mate.
Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon and George Wallace in the general election to become the 37th President but was shot to death in September 1969.
In the story "President-Elect" by Mark Aronson in the anthology "Alternate Kennedys", RFK survives his encounter with Sirhan Sirhan and adds a strong law and order theme to his campaign.
Pressured by incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson to more closely toe the party line (or more precisely, the LBJ line) or else risk having his election sabotaged, Kennedy bolts and becomes the Republican nominee with Richard Nixon as his running mate.
The Democrats nominate his brother Ted Kennedy to run with the incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey.
Kennedy/Nixon barely edges Kennedy/Humphrey, but before he can be inaugurated, Robert is killed when he accidentally drives off a bridge at Chappaquiddick, leaving Nixon to become the 37th President.
In the 1969 alternate history "If Israel Lost the War" by Richard Z. Chesnoff, Edward Klein and Robert Littell, Israel was defeated in the Six Day War, Sirhan Sirhan went home to share in his people's victory celebrations, and Robert Kennedy passed unscathed through the kitchen of The Ambassador Hotel and went on to be elected as the 37th President.
On entering office, Kennedy feels that the fall of Pro-Western Israel at the hands of the pro-Soviet Nasser's Egypt has dangerously tipped the global balance of forces, and he orders an escalation of the Vietnam War through a land invasion of North Vietnam.
However, American forces get bogged down far short of Hanoi, due to intensive Vietnamese guerrilla activity plus the direct mass intervention of Chinese "volunteers", similar to those who fought in the Korean War.
As a result, the President's popularity sharply plunges by 1969, when the book ends.
In the short story "Fellow Americans" by Eileen Gunn contained in the anthology "Alternate Presidents", Barry Goldwater defeated the early favourite and incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 and went on to be re-elected in 1968.
During his term in office, President Goldwater ordered that nuclear weapons be deployed against North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
In 1990, Kennedy, who had never seriously sought the Democratic presidential nomination, was serving as the Governor of New York and proceedings had been instituted against him for an alleged impropriety which he had committed while in his office.
While attending the opening ceremony of the 1990 New York World's Fair in the Tower of Diminished Expectations, Governor Kennedy was the subject of an attempted assassination but survived as he had been wearing a bullet proof vest.
During his convalescence, he informed his wife Ethel Kennedy that he intended to seek the Democratic nomination for the 1992 presidential election and run against the incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, who was increasingly unpopular due to his perceived poor handling of the economic recession.
However, as the would-be assassin had not been caught, Ethel was afraid that he would strike again and attempted to persuade her husband to abandon his plans to run for the presidency.
Her efforts proved unsuccessful.
Kennedy remained bitter that Johnson had chosen Hubert Humphrey as his running mate in the 1964 election as he was convinced that, with him on the ticket, Johnson would have defeated Goldwater and that he (Kennedy) would have gone on to be elected President himself in 1968.
Ted Kennedy  Mentioned in "The Simpsons" episode "Bart to the Future" and was president sometime before Lisa Simpson.
A list of US Presidents since the 1950s in Robert A. Heinlein's book "" (1984) concludes with "Eisenhower, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy", presumably referring to both Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy.
This joke was used earlier in "A Boy and His Dog" (1976) when the main character lists the presidents in order: "Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy...".
This list was also mentioned as the USA presidents in The Number of the Beast for "Timeline 2" (the Future History timeline) as "Woodrow Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy, ..., Neemiah Scudder Interregnum".
Elected President in 1980 in the first edition of Jeffrey Archer's novel "Shall We Tell the President?".
He had narrowly managed to defeat Jimmy Carter on the fifth ballot at the Democratic National Convention.
He picked Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers as his running mate and they defeated Illinois Governor James R. Thompson by a 147,000 votes in the popular vote and became the 40th President.
(In the revised edition, Florentyna Kane, from Archer's "Kane and Abel" and "The Prodigal Daughter" was the president.)
Rev.
Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
In an episode of "What If?"
on the Discovery Channel, King was Vice President under Robert Kennedy and succeeded him as the 38th President in September 1969.
Major of his initiatives are détente and continue program of Great Society (but under a new name).
He was assassinated in 1971.
He was succeeded by Vice President George McGovern.
Wynton Kelly  In the German Tageschau for the Wende Gruppe Wiedervereinigungsfest, Kelly was President of the United States in the 1970s, during a crisis between the US and the USSR around the "Herald des Freien Westens", a communication satellite.
The secret services of both sides of the Iron Curtain claimed that the other side had stolen crucial parts of the satellite for military purposes.
Kelly gave a broadcast speech in which he warned the Soviet leaders to immediately deliver to stolen parts back to the US under threat of a nuclear attack.
In return General Bravonov, the Soviet leader, warned the US to return their parts of the satellite.
The broadcast speech can be viewed on YouTube under the tag "Wiedervereinigungsfest".  
After Johnson's withdrawal, Vice President Hubert Humphrey announced his candidacy on April 27.
Kennedy was successful in four state primaries (Indiana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and California) and McCarthy won six (Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Oregon, New Jersey, and Illinois); however, in primaries where they campaigned directly against one another, Kennedy won three primaries (Indiana, Nebraska, and California) and McCarthy won one (Oregon).
Humphrey did not compete in the primaries, leaving that job to favorite sons who were his surrogates, notably Senator George A. Smathers from Florida, Senator Stephen M. Young from Ohio, and Governor Roger D. Branigin of Indiana.
Instead, Humphrey concentrated on winning the delegates in non-primary states, where party leaders such as Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley controlled the delegate votes in their states.
Kennedy defeated Branigin and McCarthy in the Indiana primary, and then defeated McCarthy in the Nebraska primary.
However, McCarthy upset Kennedy in the Oregon primary.
After Kennedy's defeat in Oregon, the California primary was seen as crucial to both Kennedy and McCarthy.
McCarthy stumped the state's many colleges and universities, where he was treated as a hero for being the first presidential candidate to oppose the war.
Kennedy campaigned in the ghettos and barrios of the state's larger cities, where he was mobbed by enthusiastic supporters.
Kennedy and McCarthy engaged in a television debate a few days before the election, it was generally considered a draw.
On June 4 Kennedy narrowly defeated McCarthy in California, 46% to 42%.
However, McCarthy refused to withdraw from the presidential race and made it clear that he would contest Kennedy in the upcoming New York primary, where McCarthy had much support from antiwar activists in New York City.
The New York primary quickly became a moot point, however, when Kennedy was shot in the early morning of June 5, shortly after his victories in the California and South Dakota primaries; he died twenty-six hours later.
Kennedy had just given his victory speech in a crowded ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles; he and his aides squeezed into a kitchen on their way to another ballroom to celebrate their victory.
In the kitchen's pantry, Kennedy and five other people were shot.
Sirhan Sirhan, a young Palestinian militant who disliked Kennedy for his support of the state of Israel, was arrested, tried and convicted.
Political historians have debated to this day whether Kennedy could have won the Democratic nomination had he lived.
Some historians, such as Theodore H. White and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., have argued that Kennedy's broad appeal and charisma would have convinced the party bosses at the Democratic Convention to give him the nomination.
However, most observers , such as Tom Wicker, who covered the Kennedy campaign for "The New York Times", believe that Humphrey's large lead in delegate votes from non-primary states, combined with Senator McCarthy's refusal to quit the race, would have prevented Kennedy from ever winning a majority at the Democratic Convention, and that Humphrey would have been the Democratic nominee even if Kennedy had lived.
Journalist Richard Reeves has written that Humphrey was the likely nominee, and RFK's own campaign manager, future Democratic National Committee chairman Larry O'Brien, wrote in his memoirs that Kennedy's chances of winning the nomination had been slim, even after his win in California.
At the moment of RFK's death, the delegate totals were: Hubert Humphrey 561 Robert Kennedy 393 Eugene McCarthy 258  
The Joe Biden presidential campaign, 2008 began when Biden, then the senior Senator from Delaware, announced his candidacy for President of the United States on the January 7, 2007 edition of "Meet the Press".
He officially became a candidate on January 31, 2007 after filing papers with the Federal Elections Commission.
Biden had previously run for president in 1988, but failed to receive the nomination of the Democratic Party.
If elected, Biden would have been the first sitting Senator and Roman Catholic to be president since John F. Kennedy, and the first President to be born during World War II.
(b.
1942)During the campaign, Biden focused on his plan to achieve political success in the Iraq War through a system of federalization.
He touted his record in the Senate as the head of several congressional committees and experience in foreign policy.
Despite a few notable endorsements, Biden failed to garner significant support in opinion polls, and was marred by controversial comments made while campaigning.
He ultimately dropped out of the race on January 3, 2008, after capturing less than 1% of the vote in the Iowa caucus.
Seven months after conclusion of his campaign, Biden was selected to be Democratic nominee Barack Obama's running mate.
The pair won in the general election, and were sworn in on January 20, 2009.