Question

Of the events listed, which played the BIGGEST role in the Presidential Election of 1968?

a.The sitting President was assassinated.
b.A Presidential candidate was assassinated.
c.The United States pulled all troops out of VietnamD)The President was under Congressional investigation.

Answer 1

The correct answer to the following question will be Option B (A Presidential candidate was assassinated).

Step-by-step explanation:

• The presidential election of the United States in 1968 was the 46th quadrennial. On Tuesday 5 November 1968. This took place. The former vice-president of the Republic, Mr. Richard Nixon, defeated the new vice-president of democracy, Mr. Hubert Humphrey.
• In the 1968 Democratic National Convention which witnessed numerous anti-war protests, Humphrey won the presidential nomination.
• The popular vote won by Nixon was less than one, although the majority of the States won the election outside of the North-East comfortably. Former Governor George Wallace of Alabama, the American Independent Party, won the Deep South elections with 13.5% of the popular vote.