My personal guess is it's because people want to take an anti protest stance but don't want to just come out and say that they would have been pushed into the real law and order camp George Wallace was pushing
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interesting how much it helped Wallace, tho!
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An important point, taking into account the fact that the Wallace vote became, and still is, the GOP vote. At the same time, I wonder how many of those Rockefeller Republicans who voted for Nixon will now vote for Biden?
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There was also a thing called the Vietnam War raging in 1968. Nixon ran hard on his "plan" to end the war. Of course it turned out he didn't have one, but he convinced a lot of voters he did. Humphrey was stained with Lyndon Johnson's mistakes in Vietnam.
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Absolutely. Most accounts of the elections stress how Humphrey was unable to put daylight between himself and Johnson on Vietnam, due to Johnson's refusal to endorse him until late in the campaign.
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And why does it matter? Incumbent vs. non-incumbent is all you need to know to understand that the analogy sucks anyway.
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Humphrey was basically the incumbent. Looks like his numbers improved after the riots. But Humphrey was hardly pro-riot. Wallace almost helped him win.
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If anything, they helped Wallace.
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