1968

The **United States presidential election of 1968** was a wrenching national experience, and included the [|assassination of Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy], the assassination of civil rights leader [|Martin Luther King, Jr.] and subsequent [|race riots] across the nation, the violence at the [|1968 Democratic National Convention], and widespread demonstrations against the [|Vietnam War] across American university and college campuses. The election also featured a strong [|third-party] effort by former Alabama governor [|George Wallace]; although Wallace's campaign was frequently accused of promoting [|racism], he would prove to be a formidable candidate, and was the last third-party candidate to win an entire state's [|electoral votes]. In the end, Republican [|Richard M. Nixon] narrowly won the election over Democrat [|Hubert H. Humphrey] on a campaign promise to restore "law and order". The election of 1968 was a [|realigning election] that ended the Democratic realignment started by Franklin Roosevelt in [|1932].

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1968

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