Describe a Republican who voted for every Republican nominee from 1960 to 2012 except 1968
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Yu748Girl83
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« on: August 01, 2023, 09:58:52 AM »

DESCRIBE!
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« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2023, 09:59:10 AM »

Should note they voted for Humphrey!
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« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2023, 10:04:10 AM »

Someone who liked Hubert Humphrey's hawkishness in Vietnam
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« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2023, 12:25:38 PM »

Minnesota Republican who is likely a moderate.
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« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2023, 03:42:50 AM »

An ancestral-and/or-lifelong R who voted for the Humphrey/Muskie ticket due to some combination of the following reasons:

1) the "favorite son" effect, if they were from Minnesota or Maine

2) the LBJ administration's and/or Humphrey's personal support for the Vietnam War

3) Humphrey's strong association with civil rights, and/or their support for the multiple civil rights bills signed by LBJ (including those signed after the 1964 election, such as the 1965 Voting Rights Act)

4) A personal approval (or personal benefitting from) Social Security and Medicare, and an appreciation for Humphrey's strong support of those programs

5) Support for some combination of other social programs which were supported by LBJ or by Humphrey (at least more so than they were perceived as being supported by Nixon). Could be anything ranging from some welfare program to something like the PBS (of course, all of this considering that this hypothetical voter backed Goldwater over LBJ in 1964, but keep in mind that the 1964 election was indeed about more than just which of the two candidates relative to the other was broadly more "pro-welfare" across the board or perceived as such).


Thanks, if they voted for Wallace then this would be a different subject altogether.
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« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2023, 03:21:06 PM »

Someone who liked Hubert Humphrey's hawkishness in Vietnam

Humphrey wasn’t that hawkish and by the end of the campaign he had started to distance himself from the Johnson administration (removing the Vice-Presidential seal from his campaign rallies) but it was too little too late. If he’d won it’s likely I think that he would have ended the Vietnam war by 71 or 72 but unfortunately he was still perceived as the more hawkish candidate in 68.
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