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This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1968 election.After winning the Democratic presidential nomination at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey asked the convention to nominate Maine Senator Edmund Muskie as his running mate.
In 1960, John F. Kennedy won the Democratic nomination over Lyndon B. Johnson.After he secured the nomination at the party convention, Kennedy offered Johnson the vice presidential nomination; the offer was a surprise, and some Kennedy supporters claimed that the nominee expected Johnson to decline.
Poll source Date Richard Nixon Republican Hubert Humphrey Democratic George Wallace American Ind. Undecided/Other Leading by ()Election Results: November 5, 1968
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