1968: Who would you have voted for?
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Hubert Humphrey (D)		  
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Richard Nixon (R)		  
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« Reply #25 on: June 27, 2008, 09:43:26 PM »
Hubert Humphrey, probably, though I would have also seriously considered Nixon. 

Wallace, on the other hand, was too far out there especially with regard to race-relations. 
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« Reply #26 on: June 28, 2008, 12:29:54 AM »
Either Wallace or McCarthy
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« Reply #27 on: June 28, 2008, 03:34:28 PM »
Humphrey
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« Reply #28 on: July 03, 2008, 11:12:43 PM »
Humphrey
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« Reply #29 on: July 04, 2008, 03:02:28 AM »
Humphrey, assuming I wasn't pissed that the nomination had been stolen from McCarthy and didn't vote in protest, which is very possible.
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« Reply #30 on: July 04, 2008, 10:29:27 AM »
Wallace w/out a second thought.
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« Reply #31 on: July 04, 2008, 04:54:10 PM »

Because those two aren't polar opposites or anything.



(Well maybe not polar, but pretty close)
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« Reply #32 on: July 04, 2008, 07:36:38 PM »
Nixon for sure.

1968 was a watershed election, the Democrats had been in power for 8 years, the Vietnam War was raging, and new leadership for the nation was needed.

Nixon had the ability and the experience to provide new leadership, including what appeared to be a reasonable plan, at the time, to bring the troops home from Vietnam. 
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« Reply #33 on: July 05, 2008, 01:31:16 AM »
Nixon.
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« Reply #34 on: July 05, 2008, 03:50:39 AM »
Write-In: Eugene McCarthy.. or Fidel Castro. Depending on mood.

Of course In retrospect anything would have been better than the Nixon Regime.
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« Reply #35 on: July 05, 2008, 04:16:04 AM »
Richard Nixon (R)
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« Reply #36 on: July 05, 2008, 05:30:36 AM »
Then: Richard Nixon (R)

Now: Probably Nixon, though I would have considered voting for an obscure Write-In candidate. If I didn't vote for an obscure one such as Mao or Uncle Ho I would have written in Senator Gene McCarthy.
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« Reply #37 on: July 05, 2008, 06:57:43 PM »
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« Reply #38 on: July 14, 2008, 01:35:27 PM »
would have been a tough call then.....slight lean to Humphrey.

With hindsight: definitely Humphrey
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« Reply #39 on: July 14, 2008, 01:49:34 PM »
Nixon, but I can see myself giving thought to Humphrey in the latter stages of the campaign.
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« Reply #40 on: July 16, 2008, 12:25:42 AM »
Nixon.
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« Reply #41 on: May 05, 2015, 10:38:43 PM »
Humphrey, even though it would have taken a big swing toward Humphrey to give him a majority of EVs (as without that majority Wallace would control the process). I think the behind the scenes finagling vis-a-vis Nixon and Vietnam in the final days of the campaign resulted in missing a historic opportunity. I can't help but think race relations would have been better.
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« Reply #42 on: May 06, 2015, 12:29:31 PM »
I would abstain though in hindsight knowing what I know about Nixon's sabotaging the peace talks definitely Humphrey.
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« Reply #43 on: May 06, 2015, 12:37:22 PM »
#humphrey2k16
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