An introduction to the 1968 presidential election is featured including remarks from president-elect Richard Nixon ... Video Clip 14: 1968 Electoral Map (1:02) Chapman University Professor ...

Chapman University Professor Luke Nichter discussed the results found in the 1968 Electoral Map. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This text was compiled from ...

Surveys by the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor showed Nixon the easy winner, with Wallace second and Humphrey third in probable electoral votes. When he heard the tally of the ...

showed Humphrey ahead in New York State for the first time. Two previous straw polls by the paper had indicated that Nixon had a good chance to get the Empire State’s 43 electoral votes.

THE SOUTH: Nixon, Naturally With 145 electoral votes at stake, Nixon should take 82, Humphrey 46, Wallace 17 (Alabama’s 10 and Mississippi’s 7). For Nixon: Arkansas (6), Florida (14), Kentucky ...

The peace talks fell through, and Nixon won 301 electoral votes to Democrat Hubert Humphrey’s 191 and independent George Wallace’s 46. In hindsight, it’s unclear if Johnson’s Hail Mary ...

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Given these qualifications, here is how the race for November figures: With 270 electoral votes needed to win the presidency, Nixon should carry 239; Humphrey, 215; Alabama’s former Governor ...

SO said Richard Nixon ... electoral escape that if they had to do it again, they would change nothing—including the surely damaging decision not to debate Democratic Candidate Hubert Humphrey.

NPR reported that Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who lost the 1968 presidential election to Nixon, did not oversee the counting of the Electoral College votes in 1969. Humphrey instead attended ...