Talk Elections

With the election in three days, you have to decide. Will you vote for Senator Kennedy's anti-war campaign? Or will you vote for Rockefeller and a rejection of the Democrats but in favor of a sane Republican? Or will you decide to support George Wallace's third-party populist campaign?

(The V.P. choices for the major parties are the results of what people stated in the threads)

RFK.

Write-in: Eugene McCarthy

Bobby

I refuse to vote. All three candidates are awful.

RFK. But I'd be satisfied as long as Wallace didn't win.

John Wayne was an AIP member ?

Bobby, although I like the Pubbies here too.

RFK

if it were anyone else, I'd have to find another candidate to write-in.

Voted RFK.
After seeing these results, I'd like to change my vote to write-in Pigasus.

Bobby.

Wallace, because all four people on the top two tickets are abysmal.

An enthusiastic vote for Rocky/Romney.

Why are so many Republicans voting for RFK? I mean, sure, Rockefeller isn't a conservative, but he's to the right of RFK.

Rockefeller, though barely.

Wallace.

A poll was done on this board of all the people considered by Wallace for VP and John Wayne won.

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The dream ticket.  :)

What domestic policy differences? (H/T Teddy White)

But the fact he was considered in first place means he somewhat shared his views...

I probably would have voted for RFK, but I would not mind Rockefeller either. This in kind of off-topic, but I think that if RFK were elected in 1968 and re-elected in 1972, the Republicans would have probably took over the House and Senate in the 1974 midterm elections due to the mediocre economy of the mid 1970s and overall fatigue with 20 years of the Democrats controlling both branches of congress. In 1976, Ronald Reagan would have likely became President if RFK was elected in 1968 as well.

Well John Wayne was a conservative Republican if that's what you mean to say.

Wow, Wallace is beating Rockefeller.  :o

Well, no, that's not what I meant to say, but I just realized I'm on a forum where it is perfectly fine for conservative republicans (or even libertarians) to support Wallace.

Yeah, I didn't think that he'd have as many votes as he does.

Only a couple more hours to vote, though it looks like the result's pretty much set in stone. :P

Well it seemeth the election is over. Will be by shortly with map.

The map of a 44-point democratic win in 1968? Should look fairly boring. Wallace would win MS and AL, RFK everything else.

Good Heavens, how did Wallace beat Rockefeller?

Apparently his stance on the war/support for states rights outweigh his blatant racism and segregationist stances in some voters' eyes.

Oh. Dear.

Yeah, the amount of people on this who consider racism is OK as long as it's disguised as pseudo-libertarianism is sickening.

The Final Result, 1968 Presidential Election
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Senator Robert Francis Kennedy (Democrat-New York)/Vice President Hubert Horatio Humphrey (Democrat-Minnesota) 507 electoral votes, 63.9% of the popular vote
Former Governor George C. Wallace (American Independent-Alabama)/Actor Marion Mitchell "John Wayne" Morrison (American Independent-California) 27 electoral votes, 19.4% of the popular vote
Governor Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller (Republican-New York)/Governor George Wilken Romney (Republican-Michigan) 4 electoral votes, 13.9% of the popular vote
Others: 0 electoral votes, 2.8% of the popular vote

lol Idaho

Easy for me: Rocky in a heartbeat!!! (Especially with Romney on the ticket.)

I was about to make a joke about moderate heroism on this forum, until I noticed that George Wallace was the guy beating Rockefeller.

So yeah, what the hell guys?

Bump, so Snowstalker sees his redundancy.

Rocky!