What events at home and abroad significantly affected the outcome of the 1968 presidential election?

Answer 1

The students revolt against the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movements. All over the western world these demonstrations by young people had a huge effect on politics, elections and their outcome.

Answer 2

The unpopularity of the Vietnam War had merged which caused Johnson not to run for President

Martin Luther King JR and Robert Kennedy are assassinated

Riots at the Democratic Convention in 1968 on Chicago

Wallace splits and forms the American Party with Curtis LeMay as a running mate and split the vote enough to hand Nixon the presidency

Answer 3

In 1968, President L. Johnson tried to create a society that was kind to the poor. In so doing he had to lie to the American people about Vietnam because he was afraid the American people wouldn't want to pay for war and all these social programs. When we started to learn the truth about Vietnam most people just hated Johnson and forgot about all the ggod thing he was trying to do. The opposition to the war in Vietnam grew so great that Johnson's chance of reelection diminished. Bobby Kennedy had a good chance to beat him for the Democratic party's nomination, but he was killed. Nixon, who was not very popular even before Watergate was able to beat Johnson because of thewar in Vietnam and domestic problems here in the U.S.

Answer 4

Richard Nixon appeared on Laugh-In less than a month before the election.