I remember the cover of Life magazine, Bill Anders' photo of the Earth taken from lunar orbit, and the text, "The Incredible Year".
Posted on 10/09/2024 11:19:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The 60th quadrennial presidential election in the United States is in four weeks, less than a month away. As the campaign season is heating up, let’s take a look at the election of 1968, the last time the incumbent President decided not to run for re-election despite not being term-limited, just like President Joe Biden did this year.
As the 2024 election is fast approaching, we need to make a big jump in American history, skipping from 1932 to 1968. Evidently, there are a lot of events we have to jump over, here’s a list of just the most significant ones: the United States entering World War II in 1941 after the Pearl Harbor attack, then winning it on the side of the Allied Forces in 1945 after becoming the first nation to develop an atomic bomb; the end of the Great Depression and the subsequent baby and economic boom; television becoming widespread in American households and becoming a crucial campaign tool, the start of the Cold War between the capitalist West and the communist East; and the assassination of a sitting US President.
As for less exciting, electoral procedural developments, two major changes had occurred in that time period. The inauguration of the new President was moved from March to 20 January, as it is today, in 1937. Also, the 22nd amendment was passed and ratified by Congress in 1951, so now the President is forbidden from seeking a third term by law.
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The demographics and political spectrum are substantially different 56 years later.
LBJ: one of if not the worst Presidents of all the really bad Democrat Presidents we’ve had. Will take a lot to undo the damage he did beginning with the patently unconstitutional Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Early on, McCarthy was vocal in his intent to unseat the incumbent Democratic United States President Lyndon B. Johnson. Following McCarthy’s 42% showing in New Hampshire, Senator Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.) entered the race. Kennedy’s entrance forced President Johnson to withdraw. After Johnson’s withdrawal, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey entered the contest but avoided the primaries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy_1968_presidential_campaign
The Great Society did more to kill the black family structure than anything.
Yet they still semi-worship his arse here in Texas. He was the most vile human to ever hold that office and that says a lot.
I remember the cover of Life magazine, Bill Anders' photo of the Earth taken from lunar orbit, and the text, "The Incredible Year".
Bobby Kennedy was the most popular till he was MURDERED BY A PALESTINIAN IMMIGRANT.
The democrats then rushed Hubert Humphrey into the fray which got Nixon elected.
Gov Wallace of Alabama was the Wild Card.
Also in 1968 was RFK.If he wasn’t murdered he would have won.
On the night of the fateful California Primary in 1968, Reagan said that RFK sounded more conservative than the Republicans who were running.
Humphrey was already in the race. Bobby Kennedy did not enter the race until Johnson dropped out. While Bobby was popular he was not was Johnson and Johnson would have moved heaven and earth to keep him from being the Nominee.
As to Bobby’s assassination, I just read and interesting article on this that made a great case of the Mossad taking him out and that Sirhan was another patsy. Turns out he was Christian and not a Muslim.
https://www.unz.com/article/did-israel-kill-the-kennedies/
The 22nd Amendment was proposed by Congress in 1947 (when there was a Republican majority) and ratified by 3/4ths of the states in 1951.
__”””””LBJ: one of if not the worst Presidents of all the really bad Democrat Presidents we’ve had. Will take a lot to undo the damage he did beginning with the patently unconstitutional Civil Rights Act of 1964.”””””__
People should learn that what they put on LBJ mostly all came from JFK.
“On June 19, 1963 President Kennedy submitted to Congress the Civil Rights Act of 1963, intended to resolve weaknesses of previous civil rights legislation that lacked enforcement provisions.”
“Unfortunately, President Kennedy was not able to pass the legislation during his time in office. However, President Lyndon B. Johnson continued the fight and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (H.R. 7152) was officially signed into law on July 2, 1964.”
They might do that in some blue cities-but in this rural area and others they don’t. I don’t know a single person who does not say that LBJ was an evil, vile human being. Most believe he was involved in more than one murder and that his mafia connections were in part responsible for the assassination of JFK...
I agree, Austin is the worst for delusion.
Nonsense, the left thinks that RFK would of course won, as they always thought that Teddy was also a shoo-in if he ran, but neither of them were in reality.
May 10, 1967: “Kennedy Support Declining”
Nixon’s highly favorable rating was the best, at 28%, while Kennedy’s 24% put him third behind Humphrey, at 26%.
May 19, 1968: “Lack of Enthusiasm Found for ‘68 Candidates”
As of mid-May, both Nixon and his Republican challenger, Nelson Rockefeller, were preferred over all three Democratic candidates in Gallup’s fall election trial heats, with Kennedy performing the worst of the three.
May 12, 1968: “Nixon, Rockefeller Lead All 3 Democratic Candidates”
In Gallup’s final poll on Kennedy — which preceded his victory in the California Democratic primary two days before his death — Kennedy trailed Humphrey, 36% to 48% (in a two-way race), in Democrats’ preferences for their party’s nomination. He was tied with Nixon in a trial-heat ballot of U.S. voters for the November election.
https://news.gallup.com/vault/235283/gallup-vault-look-back-robert-kennedy.aspx
I would not exactly say that Biden “dropped” out. I would say a coup de état is more like it.
Wrong.
You can't "drop out" of a race you never entered.
Yep, the bastard gave us the Great Society and started the inner city snowball to hell rolling.
I suspect most of our deficit is due to that with it’s locked in increases and permanent parasite under class.
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