1968 United States presidential election in Nevada information
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1968 United States presidential election in Nevada
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November 5, 1968[1]
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Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
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60,598
20,432
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39.29%
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The 1968 United States presidential election in Nevada took place on November 5, 1968, as part of the 1968 United States presidential election. State voters chose three[2] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Since William Jennings Bryan's three elections, Nevada had been a bellwether state voting for every winner since 1912. However, relative to the nation, Nevada had trended Republican since the end of World War II when Populist radicalism gave way to small-town and rural conservatism due to demographic and technological change.[3] Although Democrats had a large advantage in registration, the 1966 midterm elections saw Republican Lieutenant Governor Paul Laxalt take most of the Mormon and Catholic vote in traditionally Democratic Clark County,[4] which was becoming the center of the state's rapid demographic growth. This Republican trend was aided by a fall in demand for construction work in Las Vegas and several major strikes across the state.[4]
In the early stages of the campaign, the Democratic Party viewed Nixon – despite losing strongly Catholic Nevada to Kennedy in 1960 – as much more dangerous in Nevada than Ronald Reagan or George Romney.[5] As a part of his national third party segregationist campaign, former Alabama Governor George Wallace became the first third-party candidate to obtain the necessary eight thousand signatures to get on the ballot in Nevada since the "Progressive Party" in 1948.[6]
In the earliest polls Nevada's past Republican trend was confirmed, with it being given clearly to Nixon in the second week of September,[7] and confirmed by further polls[8] until the last few days before the election. During this period Humphrey made a brief visit to Nevada[9] and came back substantially nationwide, whilst a strong poll for Wallace made the state doubtful.[10]
Ultimately former Vice President Richard Nixon, with 47.46% of the popular vote,[11] won Nevada more substantially than predicted by the last polls, though by less than thought likely in September and early October. "Independent American" candidate George Wallace finished with 13.25% of the popular vote, close to his national average but his best performance outside the Confederacy and Border States. Wallace's success was largely due to his endorsement by state congressman Walter S. Baring Jr., a conservative "States' Rights Democrat" who consistently managed huge majorities in Nevada's rural 'Cow Counties' (the 14 counties apart from Clark, Washoe, and Carson City).[12]
^"United States Presidential election of 1968 – Encyclopædia Britannica". Retrieved May 25, 2017.
^"1968 Election for the Forty-Sixth Term (1969-73)". Retrieved May 25, 2017.
^Phillips, Kevin P.; The Emerging Republican Majority, pp. 458, 463 ISBN 9780691163246
^ abBushnell; Eleanore; 'The 1966 Election in Nevada', The Western Political Quarterly, volume 20, no. 2, Part 2 (June 1967), pp. 581-585
^Turner, Wallace; 'Democrats Chart Strategy in West: Delegates From Six States Discuss Campaign Plans'; The New York Times, January 15, 1968, p. 24
^'Wallace Wins Spot on Nevada Ballot'; The Washington Post, May 2, 1968, p. A2
^Broder, David S.; 'Early Analysis Gives Nixon Commanding Lead in Race' The Washington Post, September 10, 1968, p. A15
^'Gallup Gives Nixon Big Lead in Midwest and West'; The New York Times (Special); October 25, 1968, p. 17
^Bushnell, Eleanore and Driggs, Don W.; The Western Political Quarterly, volume 22, no. 3 (September 1969), pp. 504-509
^'A Final State-by-State Political Survey...: ...A Last Reading on the Campaign of 1968'; The Washington Post, November 3, 1968, p. B4
^"The American Presidency Project – Election of 1968". Retrieved May 25, 2017.
^"Presidential candidates thinking big think Elko". Las Vegas Review-Journal. August 6, 2007. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
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