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  1. Humphrey won the party's nomination at the Convention on the first ballot, amid protests in Chicago. He selected little-known Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine as his running mate.

  2. Without Vietnam (and his being Johnson’s vice president), Humphrey might have won in 1968. The country — and the world — would be drastically different. Hubert Humphrey arrived in the Senate in...

  3. So looking at the electoral map Humphrey did get close to Nixon in a lot of states, if Humphrey wins Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey and California, he wins. This could happen if Wallace runs even better in places like Missouri and southern parts of Ohio and Illinois. Heck give Wallace Tennessee and it looks like Nixon is a washed up has been.

  4. Nov 9, 2009 · He ended up losing to Nixon by 510,000 votes in one of the tightest presidential elections in history; many people claimed that he would have won if the election had been held one week later.

  5. Reply reply. gordo65. •. He was very close in California, Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, Missouri, and Illinois. Winning California and two others would have gotten him the election. Also, Robert Kennedy immediately passed Humphrey as the favorite to win the nomination, because of his forceful stance against the war.

  6. Oct 16, 2018 · A late September Gallup poll showed Humphrey with only 28 percent of the vote, just 7 percent more than Wallace, 15 points less than Nixon — and not even half of the percentage won by LBJ.

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  8. May 8, 2020 · During the election of 1968, there was a party that ran on a segregation ticket and won electoral votes. The candidates were as follows: Republicans : Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. Democrats : Hubert Humphrey and Vice President Edmund Muskie. American Independent: George Wallace and Vice President Curtis LeMay. Platforms.