Hypothetically in the 1968 election--who would you vote for?

[WI_DEM]

if the Democratic nominees were President Lyndon Johnson & VP Hubert Humphrey



GOP nominees Richard Nixon & Sprio Agnew



Third party nominees George Wallace & Curtis LeMay



Or some other candidate

Who would you vote for?

[Thinkingabout]

1. LBJ 0f course

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. I voted for Dr. Spock and Eldridge Cleaver.

The Peace & Freedom Party candidates.

And, I would do it again.

[struggle4progress]

41. Spock didn't run in 68: he ran in 72 on the People's Party ticket, not on the P&FP ticket

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

42. You're right. It was Eldridge only.

Getting old.

[Politicalboi]

3. RFK had he lived

[onehandle]

4. Same here. nt

[Politicalboi]

9. I was 7 years old in 1968

But the fight between Bobby and LBJ would have been great. They hated each other so much. I would have loved to see Bobby take down LBJ.

[The_Commonist]

16. I was also 7 years old in 1968!

My mother was an alternate delegate from New York at the Chicago convention.
She was there to support Eugene McCarthy.
And she spent a night in jail...

That's probably who I would support now in the primaries.
But if LBJ had gotten the nomination, I would have voted for him in a heartbeat over Nixon.
Despite "how many kids" he might have "killed today..."

[villager]

10. Exactly. And no "accident" that he didn't

n/t

[RGinNJ]

5. Hypothetically Bobby

God I hate guns.

[stevenleser]

6. No question. LBJ nt

[rurallib]

7. Nixon and Agnew should have ended up in jail

Wallace and LeMay were nuts - Le May especially so.

I guess LBJ and HHH.

Had it not been for Viet Nam LBJ could have been a great president.

[rbrnmw]

44. yes but like all Republican criminals

they skated

[JVS]

8. Pigasus.

[wandy]

11. Johnson-Humphrey with no question............

You could sort of see the Nixon train wreak coming long before it left the station.

The Checkers speech or Fund speech was an address made on September 23, 1952 by the Republican vice presidential candidate, California Senator Richard Nixon. Nixon had been accused of improprieties relating to a fund established by his backers to reimburse him for his political expenses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers_speech

Funney isn't it. This would likely not have caused him problems today.

Richard Milhous Nixon, the last honorable elected Republican president.

[WinkyDink]

34. Whaaaaat?! You've perhaps heard of "Watergate"? "Enemies lists"? John Mitchell? Segretti? Hunt?

http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/column/woodward-and-bernstein-nixon-s-crimes-were-worse-than-we/article_c9664e56-b3f8-11e1-bc67-0019bb2963f4.html

[wandy]

35. It was a tossup. I couldn't decide whether to use the sarcasm tag or to.....

make a direct comparison to, oh say, Reagan or GWB.
Bad as he was, Nixon did considerable less damage than those elected after him.
He might not even have done some of that stuff had Citizens United been around in his day.

[WinkyDink]

45. Reagan was the worst, for sure.

[wandy]

46. Agreed. Although it was easy at the time to award the title of...........

"Worst President Ever" to GWB, we are just beginning to realize the results of Reagan's "The Feudal Society" polices. (Wordplay on LBJ's "The Great Society" intended.)
GWB did however advance Reagan's agenda with tax relief for the rich and two optional wars of necessity placed on the credit card.
We may still not know the extent of the damage done by GWB in terms of world respect and good will.

By comparison that bastard Nixon was a nit.
Recent history shows that by comparison anything put forward by the GOP will be far worse.

Imagen, Ted Cruz 45th President of the United States.

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. I voted for George Wallace in a spring 1968 junior high school straw poll.

Because that's who my father liked.

By the summer of 1968 and the Chicago convention police riots, my father and I had gone our separate ways politically. He liked smashing hippies; I liked hippies. And from there, it was on to a radical critique of all things existing.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Johnson-Humphrey.

[Leme]

14. Pat Paulson ? nt

[struggle4progress]

36. A genius!

[Leme]

43. I don't laugh at much these days

but he made me chuckle. and also a little sad.... o well. I guess more : ) than : (

: )

[surrealAmerican]

40. He'd get my vote!

I was a big fan. I was also a five-year-old, so voting was out of the question.

[rbrnmw]

15. Robert F. Kennedy had he survived

Humphrey / Muskie if I had been alive and old enough to vote in the actual general election of 68

[Shandris]

19. I wasn't old enough to ever know the Kennedy's except for Ted...

...but from everything I've ever heard, RFK would be my choice as well. Even my dad, who became conservative in later years, talked misty-eyed to me about RFK.

He said, and I quote, "I really think a lot was stolen from us in those years as a nation and a people".

[TBF]

25. Same here - always loved Teddy

but I was very young when Robert was killed. I would've voted for RFK.

[shenmue]

17. Johnson and Humphrey

[winter is coming]

18. Godzilla/Mothra. n/t

[safeinOhio]

20. My first vote for

president, at age 19, was for LBJ.

[Blue_In_AK]

27. How could that be?

The 26th amendment lowering the voting age to 18 wasn't passed until 1971.

[safeinOhio]

31. Memory goes first

[Blue_In_AK]

37. Lol

[H2O Man]

21. RFK

[BigDemVoter]

23. Hell, who do you think?

I don't vote for Republicans--EVER. Do you see any other Dems up there other than LBJ & Humphrey?

[Blue_In_AK]

24. LBJ, of course,

but I didn't vote in 1968 because I was so pissed off about Chicago and decided to boycott the election. Knowing what I know now, I would have swallowed my disgust and cast a vote for Humphrey, a far better man than Tricky Dick.

[randys1]

26. I was two feet away from RFK a few days before he was killed...

I wonder who really killed him, or had him killed.

I get a kick out of people who arent aware Hoover had MLK killed.

[Louisiana1976]

28. Johnson/Humphrey

[Historic NY]

30. +1

[DemocraticWing]

29. Well the choice is easy.

The Democratic President or VP was significantly better than fucking Nixon and Wallace. Now if the choice was over which person should have been nominated, then perhaps RFK or Eugene McCarthy would have been a viable choice for me had I been alive then.

Now here's a more interesting hypothetical:

Democratic ticket: George Wallace-Lester Maddox
Republican ticket: Nelson Rockefeller-Edward Brooke

[jwirr]

32. I almost did not vote but in the end I voted for the Democratic ticket.

[WinkyDink]

33. Seriously, WTH kind of question is this? Like any here would vote for NIXON or WALLACE? WTH?

[Spirochete]

38. I would have voted against Nixon

but I was too young in 1968.

Four years later, I got my chance, but that didn't work out as I had hoped, either.

[northoftheborder]

39. I actually did vote for LBJ.

And would do so again with the same opponent.