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The 1968 New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary was held on March 12, 1968, in New Hampshire as one of the Democratic Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1968 United States presidential election. Although President Lyndon B. Johnson defeated Senator Eugene McCarthy in the non-binding presidential preference primary with 49 ...
Kennedy began to plan for a nationwide campaign, [3] and in the informal New Hampshire vice-presidential primary, Kennedy defeated Hubert H. Humphrey in a landslide. [ 4 ] In July 1964, Johnson issued an official statement ruling out any cabinet member for the vice presidency. [ 5 ]
Despite Johnson's growing unpopularity, conventional wisdom held that it would be impossible to deny re-nomination to a sitting president. Johnson won a narrow victory in the New Hampshire presidential primary on March 12, against McCarthy 49–42%, [15] but this close second-place result dramatically boosted McCarthy's standing in the race ...
President Lyndon Johnson speaks to the nation from the Oval Office on March 31, 1968, as he bows out of the race amid the divisiveness of the Vietnam War.
A vice-presidential preference primary was also formerly held at the New Hampshire primary. New Hampshire State Senator Jack Barnes, who won the 2008 Republican contest, co-sponsored a bill in 2009 to eliminate the vice-presidential preference ballot. The bill passed both houses of the state legislature, and took effect in 2012.
New Hampshire’s long reign as the nation’s premier presidential primary may be coming to an end. Rooks: New Hampshire's primary has seen better days. Here are the reasons.
In 1968, antiwar candidate Eugene McCarthy stunned the political world by winning 42% of the New Hampshire Democratic primary vote against then-President Lyndon Johnson, who received 48%.
Incumbent president Lyndon B. Johnson had been the early frontrunner for the Democratic Party's nomination but withdrew from the race after only narrowly winning the New Hampshire primary. Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, and Robert F. Kennedy emerged as the three major candidates in the Democratic primaries until Kennedy was assassinated. His death ...