1968, all over again, guaranteed. Some here need to educate themselves.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

In the end, the Democratic Party nominated Humphrey. Even though 80 percent of the primary voters had been for anti-war candidates, the delegates had defeated the peace plank by 1,567¾ to 1,041¼.[10] The loss was perceived to be the result of President Johnson and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley influencing behind the scenes.[10] Humphrey, who had not entered any of 13 state primary elections, won the Democratic nomination, and went on to lose the election to the Republican Richard Nixon.[11]

Final Ballot[edit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Democratic_National_Convention

Guess what happened next...





REGARDLESS of which side feels or IS cheated in the convention, if the result is a repeat of this, and that sick motherfucker Drumpf takes the WH...you will ALL be VERY sorry.

[dubyadiprecession]

1. Hillary isn't Humprey...

She is actually ahead in the popular vote, delegate count and i almost forgot... the superdelegate count.

Bernie is more like Humprey. Sorry.

[SCantiGOP]

2. So, Viet Nam is going to be the major campaign issue?

[Jackie Wilson Said]

3. That wasnt the point, the point is if the BoB people turn the convention into a nightmare

support overall for the Dem party will be diminished.

BTW, they will get help causing a mess from Pro Hillary folks like Barney Frank, he is a bad choice to lead this given his recent statements on BErnie

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Almost...

[MFM008]

5. Trump will destroy the country and the world

It may be to late by the time he can be impeached.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

6. You omitted 3 very relevant facts

Humphrey won on the first ballot.

His strategy was to rely on "favorite son" candidates in big-state primaries. Those stand-ins all announced Humphrey as their choice on the very first ballot.

Eugene McCarthy never united behind the nominee, and his followers drew 6,000 federal troops and 18,000 National Guard reservists to try to keep the peace at their "protests" in Grant Park.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

8. Irrelevant, not the point. Jesus. please someone tell me they get the fucking POINT

[ProgressiveEconomist]

9. The point is that sore losers started riots

that turned off Main Street in the GE, just as some Bernie Bros are threatening to do again this year

[Jackie Wilson Said]

11. That is the point, but you are leaving out the DNC doesnt have to appoint Barney Frank

(who I like) to chair the convention when he has been the most vocal critic of Bernie.

Do they?

Cant they show some level of cooperation?

[Waiting For Everyman]

7. I remember 1968 VERY WELL

and maybe the point should be that the repression at the convention wasn't a very good idea. If Humphrey had not tried to squelch the protesters, and had gone anti-war as they wanted, he most likely would have won because Nixon masqueraded as the "peace candidate" of all things, and that's how he won.

That's if anybody gives a damn about not making the same mistake, which I very much doubt. Those who don't learn from the past... (you know the rest).

[Kip Humphrey]

10. The irony was Humphrey WAS anti war but because he was the sitting VP, he felt he could not come out

opposing LBJ. Humphrey was too loyal for our own good!

[Waiting For Everyman]

12. Exactly.

All the players shot themselves in the foot, and so many people lost their lives because of it.

[Bluenorthwest]

13. This is very correct. Also, he lost the room of adult Democrats in which I was a child back then

when the protesters and reporters were being beaten by the cops. I mean most of them showed up and voted for Hubert but they all knew that night Nixon was going to win. They were furious with the Party and with the Mayor of Chicago.