Analysis of 1968 Presidential Election

[raelraven2]

What the commentators are really dancing around here is RFK's death. Yes Tet happened in 1968, yes MLK was killed followed by the riots, but RKF's death is what really cast a pall over that campaign (and helps to explain the lower than expected turnout--many RFK supporters sat on their hands and didn't vote).

[redletter2008]

I strongly believe the 2012 analysis will sound like that of 1968. Americans will choose a new direction and will choose to stop the "big, government programs" that have now gone completely out of control. Obama, like Johnson, will be gone just four years after a resounding victory. Johnson chose not to run again; Obama will run again and be defeated. Obama deserves to be defeated for he is a complete failure. The old tradition of the "one-term" President needs to be dusted off for 2012!

[a1cjlock]

@redletter2008 You mean the one term-president should've been dusted off of 2004. Despite what the right thinks of Obama, he has done more in his term than what Bush did in his last four. Obama will win another term because theres no one in GOP pool strong enough to face him.

[redletter2008]

@a1cjlock No, I got it right. Please, feel free to vote for Obama. I, and tens of millions of others (and I believe a clear majority of the electorate this year) will vote against him with enthusiasm! Also, any of the GOP contenders are a match for Barry. Remember in '92 (at this time), Dems were terrifed because their guy (Clinton) was in 3rd, behind GHW Bush and Perot. The focus became Bush/economy & Clinton justifiably won. Same circumstances now, same results - POTUS is defeated!

[altfactor]

The results are in.......and Huntley and Brinkley won, narrowly beating Cronkite and handily beating Smith.

[WindAndTheLion]

Nixon and Reagan each won 49 of 50 states.. .THAT is unity.... That is bringing country together... Obama is the divider

[yoyosapazm]

i find this interesting that this was one of the closest elections in history which was followed by on of the biggest landslides

[macdogq]

Just truly amazing how the democrats moved from conservative values that they had for generation even before the cilvil war until 1968 when democrats decided to go liberal in 1964, and lost election in 1968 when conservative took exedus from the democrats over to the republicans party. The republicans took control of the white house over the next twenty out of twenty four years. Amazing how party lines changed.

[qlaw04]

Nah ... the vote was for Nixon and Wallace against the excesses of liberalism which had divided the country, destroyed its cities and the American sole.

[bigfilmhat]

"Soul" smart guy, "soul" not "sole".

[canyagrabmiaz]

Great video clip

The town Brinkley was blanking on was Deshler, Ohio (from Nixon's victory speech at the Waldorf)

[vitoduval]

Bush won Ohio in 2004

[ITILII]

@vitoduval yep he stole Ohio in 2004, but by more votes than the theft of Florida in 2000 (a whopping total of 538 votes)

[redletter2008]

@ITILII I guess this is how some explain defeat - continually lying about something (especially when there is now evidence to the contrary). Eleven years later, we still hear about how a President who's two terms have already ended "stole" a state he never trailed in once ALL votes were counted (Gore never won Florida - at any time, therefore, could never have won election). Then, he somehow "steals" Ohio 4 years later, but "pads" the margin? Get over it. You are wrong & so was America in '08.