Eugene McCarthy 1968

Anybody posting at ANU vote for Gene? Did you regard him as a miserable Pinko or a reasonable Populist? His anti-War stance was popular among Liberals, not so among "Conservatives," and listened to carefully by those who opposed the war on National Interest lines.


I voted for Gene! In my 5th Grade mock election. Later in life I would find that George Wallace more closely captured my politics and pride. Robert Kennedy was already dead by the time of our "election." Hubert Humphrey won (my town is drenched in Liberal Civil Servants), Tricky Dick came in second, Ronald Reagan got some votes (!) and Gene was a distant fourth. Some guy named Muskie was fifth, and Pat Paulsen got one vote. George McGovern got a vote, too. Gosh, what a cornucopia of candidiates! For all its volatility the Election of 1968 had excitement and drama.
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Eugene McCarthy's vote in the 1968 Primaries was middle to upper middle class, with some normally Republican voters. His vote was almost exclusively white, but he didn't do that well with white working class voters. This is why he beat Robert Kennedy in the Oregon Primary, as Oregon had very few black voters, or ethnics.


McCarthy did better than expected in the California Primary. Bobbybadly wanted to get over 50%, but McCarthy held him to a 46-42 margin. If RFK had lived, McCarthy would have hounded Bobby all the way to the Chicago convention. Sirhan Sirhan shot RFK on primary night because Kennedy had advocated sending jet fighters to Israel.

Howdy Pol Historian! Thanks for providing the history lesson! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you!


I hope you and I live long enough to see America become American again. I couldn't imagine voting for any available politician in 2008

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I was just a kid but I believe my native Michigan went for George Wallace in 1968 if you can freakin' believe that! However that great jesture was negated when Jesse Jackson carried the state in the 1980 (I think) Democratic primary. This can all be credited to the wacky voting habits of "Reagan Democrats" or practical jokers controlling the vote machine counters (more likely smileys/smiley2.gif)

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I was just a kid but I believe my native Michigan went for George Wallace in 1968 if you can freakin' believe that! However that great jesture was negated when Jesse Jackson carried the state in the 1980 (I think) Democratic primary. This can all be credited to the wacky voting habits of "Reagan Democrats" or practical jokers controlling the vote machine counters (more likely smileys/smiley2.gif)


I think it was in 1972, not 1968, that George Wallace won the Michigan primary and threw quite a scare into both the Republicans and the establishment Democrats. Call me paranoid if you will, but I have a strong suspicion that the shooting and attempted assassination of Wallace shortly beforeor after that primary was no "loner" affair as the invisible government wants you to believe ("...so you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what isimagined by those who are not behind the scenes*").


The Democratic candidate that year was the preposterous George McGovern, who made Richard Nixon seem first-rate by comparison.


By the way, Merry Christmas to all.


*See "Coningsby" by Benjamin Disraeli, himself a chosenite.





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George Wallace won the Michigan Democratic Primary in 1972. The vote came a few days after he was shot. He won Maryland and Tennessee the same day. The school busing issue was the main reason, as he won several other primaries that year.


Before his death, Eugene McCarthy acknowledged that he made a mistake in voting for the 1965 Immigration Bill. He said this in an interview in Chronicles magazine about a decade ago.

Call me paranoid if you will, but I have a strong suspicion that the shooting and attempted assassination of Wallace shortly beforeor after that primary was no "loner" affair as the invisible government wants you to believe ("...so you see, my dear Coningsby, that the world is governed by very different personages from what isimagined by those who are not behind the scenes*")


I will certainly NOT call you a paranoid, Mate. Absolutely Wallace's assassination was carried out by operatives of the NWO. The NWOcalls the shots, literally and figuratively. Any wayward person, politician or otherwise, who becomes powerful enough to threaten the NWO status quo becomes a target. If he can't be silenced by economic or political means, assassination is cheerfully carried out. Reagan's shooting was a warning to him for "Coloring out of the lines." This is referenced well in the book "Committee of 300"


Read the ANU book "America: Wake Up!" The protagonist George Burton describes in detail the form and function of assassination as a primary intimidation tactic of the NWO Powers that Be. Wallace would have become vastly more popular and powerful had he not been paralyzed by the NWO's hired gun


If Eugene McCarthy had gotten more votes and proceeded to prematurely end the Vietnam War, his political life would have become most miserable. Eventually he may have face the same fate as Kennedy or Wallace or ReaganEdited by: Realgeorge