He appealed to many middle-class voters upset by the civil disobedience associated with the Civil Rights and antiwar demonstrations.
George Wallace
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George Wallace ran in the 1968 presidential election as an independent candidate. He championed states rights and a policy of segregation, appealing to southern white voters who were resistant to the civil rights movement. Although he did not win the presidency, Wallace's campaign had a significant impact on politics and race relations in the United States.
George Wallace
The most famous US presidential campaigns are Democratic presidential nomination of 1960. The 1789 first US presidential election of George Washington, the 1932 US presidential campaign of Roosevelt as well as the Barack Obama's presidential campaign.
Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election defeating Hubert Humphrey. In the 1968 presidential election Richard Nixon received 301 electoral votes, Hubert Humphrey received 191 electoral votes and George Wallace received 46 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Nixon 31,785,480, Humphrey 31,275,166, and George Wallace 9,906,473.
Thousand points of light
Richard M.Nixon/Spiro Agnew Hubert Humphrey/Edmund Muskie George Wallace/Curtis LeMay
He used traditional speeches.
Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election defeating Hubert Humphrey. In the 1968 presidential election Richard Nixon received 301 electoral votes, Hubert Humphrey received 191 electoral votes and George Wallace received 46 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Nixon 31,785,480, Humphrey 31,275,166, and George Wallace 9,906,473. In the 1968 presidential, Spiro Agnew was Nixon's running mate, Edmund Muskie was Humphrey's running mate, and Curtis LeMay was Wallace's running mate.
He used traditional speeches.
Alabama Governor George Wallace