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The historic ’68 Election chronicles which gave rise to Red State - Blue State America.
Jan 11, 2016 · Airs Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV. Has there ever been a year like 1968? Assassinations, racial unrest, nationwide riots, and an endless war in Vietnam put the nation on edge and...
Nov 15, 2010 · Nixon's the One: The '68 Election: Directed by Gaspar González, Alan Tomlinson. With Dick Cavett, Richard Nixon.
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The historic ’68 Election chronicles which gave rise to Red State - Blue State America.
- Centrist Alignment
- Old Appeals May Not Work
- Testing The Same Approach
Although the events of 1968 such as urban riots, Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, and the intense fighting in Vietnamwere polarizing, the two major parties stood much closer together on most issues than they do now. In 1968, the Democrats as a whole were a more centrist party, whose ranks included lots of conservative white Southerners in Co...
Some of the most important issues in 1968 were also profoundly different from those of today. That year, sharply rising inflation and the Vietnam Warwere among the most influential factors in deciding the outcome. That’s in marked contrast to 2020, when inflation is very low and no foreign policy issue has anything like the weight that Vietnam did ...
If 1968 and 2020 are such different election years, why have phrases associated with the first tended to crop up in President Trump’s campaign speeches? Trump, who turned 22 in 1968, is old enough to remember the 1968 presidential race, which was the first one in which he could vote. He no doubt also remembers the appeal of Nixon’s “law and order” ...
- David Stebenne
Jun 9, 2017 · Dick Cavett narrates this look at how and why Richard Nixon won the 1968 presidential election. Included: remarks from activist Tom Hayden; former Nixon adviser Kevin Phillips; former senator Edward Brooke; presidential biographer David Maraniss; Nixon biographer Elizabeth Drew; and author Rick Perlstein ("Nixonland").
Nov 12, 2018 · A WLRN Original Production. In 1962, Richard Nixon's once meteoric political career lay in ruins. The former vice-president had suffered two bitter losses; one in the 1960 presidential race...
