One noticeable name that nominated himself to run for election in the Democratic Party was Robert Kennedy. The brother of the late president John F. Kennedy, he was well liked by the majority of politicians and by the people of the United States. His views toward the war were that the United States had no reason to be in Vietnam fighting in the war and losing innocent lives. His anti-war views were not uncommon in those times because not many people knew what they were really doing in Vietnam.

Another candidate for the presidency in the Democratic Party was Eugene McCarthy. Eugene McCarthy was most known for being the Senator of Minnesota. In 1967, McCarthy decided to drop out of the senate and attempt to run for the Democratic nomination in 1968 for presidency, only after hearing that other anti-war politicians had declin

The main problem that the candidates would talk about was the war in Vietnam. McCarthy got many of the younger, college voters because of his strong stance against the war in Vietnam. Almost all of the candidates were against the war but they had different ideas about how to end the war. Humphrey was following LBJ’s plan for a total halt to bombing over there. Nixon was into a peaceful end by talking to the president of Vietnam and the other parties. It was a matter of which candidate the people would go for.

The mystery man of the election of 1968 was George Wallace. Wallace was the governor of Alabama when he decided to run as a third party candidate. He became well known for his role in the desegregation incident at the University of Alabama in 1962. His candidacy put in a lot of uncertainty into the campaign. The Democrats worried that he would attract normally reliable voters in the southern states. The Republicans feared that he would attract the conservative voters that would otherwise go for Nixon. (Simon)

Kennedy and McCarthy were both anti-war. McCarthy and Kennedy challenged each other in Democratic Primaries across the country, with Kennedy only losing in Oregon. A little bit after midnight on June 5th 1968, Kennedy was on his way off stage, which took him

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