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To: SamAdams76

I hope you are right, of course, but just for the record, Hubert Humphrey came within a hair of winning in 1968.
It was like 43%-43% with George Wallace taking the rest.


31 posted on 07/31/2004 9:05:23 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard
"I hope you are right, of course, but just for the record, Hubert Humphrey came within a hair of winning in 1968.
It was like 43%-43% with George Wallace taking the rest."

I think 68' was more like 39-38% for Nixon, Wallace got a ton of votes that year. Of course there were a lot more Dems than Republicans then.
65 posted on 07/31/2004 9:21:01 PM PDT by jpf
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Nixon got 43.5, while Humphry got about 38.7.


67 posted on 07/31/2004 9:22:03 PM PDT by jps098
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To: hinckley buzzard
I hope you are right, of course, but just for the record, Hubert Humphrey came within a hair of winning in 1968. It was like 43%-43% with George Wallace taking the rest.

True, but Humphrey was the incumbent VP and Nixon won the electoral vote 301 to 191 (56% to 36%). Of course, there was the little matter of the Vietnam war.

120 posted on 07/31/2004 9:51:29 PM PDT by kabar
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It was like 43%-43% with George Wallace taking the rest.

And remember the 1968 convention was probably one of the worst conventions the dems ever threw. There was rioting inside and outside the Chicago convention. Back in those days I was for McCarthy and then Kennedy before he was assainated but I ended up voting for Nixon. The Dem party back then was far from united. It was losing both the anti-war crowd and the redneck wallace folks. Its a miracle that Humphrey did so well. Im surprised Humphrey got any positive bounce from Chicago.

217 posted on 07/31/2004 11:31:09 PM PDT by Dave S
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