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Wallace was the most popular 1968 presidential candidate among young men. [14] Wallace also proved to be popular among blue-collar workers in the North and Midwest, and he took many votes which might have otherwise gone to Humphrey. [citation needed] Wallace's support in the North plummeted from 13% in early October to 8% by election day.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1968. Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated both the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace.
Green states went to George Wallace in the 1972 Democratic primaries. George Wallace 1972 presidential campaign logo. On January 13, 1972, Wallace declared himself a Democratic candidate. The field included Senator George McGovern, 1968 nominee and former U.S. vice president Hubert Humphrey, and nine other Democratic opponents.
Former Alabama Governor George Wallace campaigns for President on an Independent Party ticket in 1968 Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. T he working class’s continued attraction to Donald ...
Wallace's 65.86 percent of the popular vote would make Alabama not only his best-performing state in the 1968 election, but the strongest-performing state out of any candidate, with only Humphrey's performance in Washington D.C. being stronger.
George Wallace announced his intention to run under the American Independent Party at a press conference in Washington, D.C. on February 8, 1968. [2] Another event that happened also in the District was President Lyndon B. Johnson announcing from the Oval Office in the White House that he would not run for a second term on March 31. [3]
From March to July 1968, Democratic Party voters elected delegates to the 1968 Democratic National Convention for the purpose of selecting the party's nominee for president in the upcoming election. Delegates, and the nominee they were to support at the convention, were selected through a series of primary elections , caucuses , and state party ...
In a June 1968 speech at Eastern Kentucky University, Nunn warned an assembly of youths gathered for Bluegrass Boys’ State that “a smog of moral cancer” plagued the nation. It must be ...