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Post by greenhert on Nov 11, 2021 20:59:00 GMT
If Robert F. Kennedy (brother of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy) had not been assassinated in 1968, would he have become US President instead of Richard Nixon that year?
Crucially, he had the support of anti-Vietnam war Democrat voters that Hubert Humphrey could not acquire.
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Post by Richard Cromwell on Nov 11, 2021 21:30:50 GMT
God knows how LBJ would've behaved during the lame duck period, or what shenanigans he might've tried to pull at the convention. I don't think I can comment sensibly on RFK's prospects in the general, or his presidency, since I'm an unreformed Kennedy romanticist.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 11, 2021 21:57:41 GMT
Polls in 1968 showed RFK doing notably worse than Hubert Humphrey. There were a lot of factors favouring a Republican victory and I think RFK being the candidate would add an extra one.
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Post by mondialito on Nov 12, 2021 0:15:23 GMT
A more interesting question could be what RFK's career would have looked like after 1968 if he didn't become President.
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Post by Defenestrated Fipplebox on Nov 12, 2021 6:09:20 GMT
A more interesting question could be what RFK's career would have looked like after 1968 if he didn't become President. Candidate in 76, President instead of Carter? |
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