 | abichara (60)
02/28/2005 | Ran a decent campaign considering the hawk-dove and regional splits dominating the Democratic party at the time. But Humphrey simply wasn't compelling enough to pull it off at the end of the day. It was a surprisingly close race at the end of the day, probably because of a last minute surge of support for the Democrats and George Wallace's candidacy, which split the conservative vote. 1968 was an interesting year because demographically the country was in flux; traditional voting patterns were being rapidly transformed by various factors.
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 | Redoedo (39)
09/06/2004 | Considering the divisions created by the Vietnam War and the fact that most Americans blamed Johnson's political machine and those associated with it for the quagmire, a Nixon victory wasn't really surprising here.
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 | EschewObfuscation (61)
09/02/2004 | Humphrey said afterward, to lose to Nixon, no heart, no soul . . . The riots outside the convention hall in Chicago, where the dems were, probably didn't help. After this election, however, no democrat had to answer for the Vietnam War. Somehow losing this election exempted all democrat politicians for the war and its outcome. It became Nixon's War, though his campaign slogan was, if I can't get us out of Vietnam in 4 years, I shouldn't be re-elected. He didn't and he was.
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