Yup 72 was a hum dinger vs McGovern.
Yeah, 68 was no landslide, but boy, do libs like to pounce hard on such small, trivial things!
1968 presidential election results (map, state table, and results by congressional district)
As far as the popular vote, some who are clueless might simplistically combine the Humphrey and Wallace votes (since Wallace was a nominal Democrat) and conclude that Nixon would have lost big in a 2-way race. The reality is that Wallace took significantly more votes from Nixon than from Humphrey, as is well-documented in this good writeup of the 1968 election campaign (by two Democrat authors):
1968 had two Democrats running, split the vote.
LBJ dropped out in MARCH.
It’s nearly August and 68 was an absolute $#1t$#0w for democrats and helped In part set up the landslide that happened in 1972
And 1964. So we had landslides in 1964, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988. Not in 1968 or 1976. So 5 out of 7 elections in that era were landslides.
Nixon’s 520 electoral vote win over McGovern in the 1972 prez race.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election
Reagan’s win 489 electoral votes in 1980.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election
Reagan’s 525 electoral vote win in 1984.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election
Bush’s 426 electoral vote win in 1988.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election
What’s the minimum number of votes needed to be defined as a landslide?
Cripes... all of a sudden the popular vote means something ?
did they forget wallace was in the race ? and got 13%+ plus 46 electoral votes.
If Wallace wasn’t in the race who gets his popular and electoral votes ?
(Hint...Nixon got ‘em all in 72 and Goldwater got most of ‘em in 64)
Not a landslide but not far off. Nixon doubled up Humphrey in EVs, won 32 states to 13 plus DC for Humphrey. Wallace won 5 and if those presumably would have gone to Humphrey then it would have been pretty close, but objectively, it was a resounding victory by Nixon. Yahoo of course trying to downplay it to fit their narrative.
The popular vote wasn’t a huge win, but electoral college it was pretty big. George Wallace won six states.
Every so often in life something happens that you seem to remember forever. For me that was the case in 1968 on election eve with Hubert Humphrey.
They ran a spot showing Hubert bowling and the pin setter froze or something. It showed that fat ass running down the lane in his white shirt and tie to fix the problem. It was so pathetic but I am sure it convinced some nieve voters to see him as an active problem solver but to me he looked like a fat ass bafoone.