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bigwillq

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3. Yes (nt)

Reply to WillyT (Original post)

Thu Feb 19, 2015, 08:12 PM

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If Bobby Kennedy Had Not Been Assassinated, Do You Think He Would Have Beat Nixon In 1968 ??? [View all] WillyT Feb 2015 OP

No doubt in my mind madokie Feb 2015 #1

Yes Kingofalldems Feb 2015 #2

Yes (nt) bigwillq Feb 2015 #3

Presuming Wallace still runs , yes DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2015 #4

I disagree about "Nixon getting all the Wallace votes" Art_from_Ark Feb 2015 #13

1968 election-i'm rounding off DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2015 #21

Let me tell you about the 1968 election results in Arkansas Art_from_Ark Feb 2015 #30

Yes. n/t winter is coming Feb 2015 #5

He might have. Jackpine Radical Feb 2015 #6

I was 11 at the time. MicaelS Feb 2015 #7

If Bobby had lived and secured the nomination hifiguy Feb 2015 #9

Don't forget Eugene McCarthy . . . markpkessinger Feb 2015 #22

Never. But RFK had the peace creds AND the Kennedy magic hifiguy Feb 2015 #23

LBJ did some truly great things . . . markpkessinger Feb 2015 #19

Without a doubt. hifiguy Feb 2015 #8

Yes. My mother, an old-style Republican, planned to vote for him. raging moderate Feb 2015 #10

Undoubtedly. Gman Feb 2015 #11

Absolutely, yes. whathehell Feb 2015 #12

No alcina Feb 2015 #14

Alcina read my mind olddots Feb 2015 #15

Don't worry, olddots alcina Feb 2015 #20

Yet another conspiracy? longship Feb 2015 #27

Nixon Cheated to win in 68... it would've been harder with JFK alive uponit7771 Feb 2015 #16

He may have. I wish the SDS hadn't disrupted in Chicago OKNancy Feb 2015 #17

What should have SDS done? Sat it out? Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2015 #36

Yeah, I think maybe he would have. blue neen Feb 2015 #18

Yes I've always believed he would have defeated Nixon. emulatorloo Feb 2015 #24

yes HockeyMom Feb 2015 #25

I wish. Dont call me Shirley Feb 2015 #26

Perhaps? fredamae Feb 2015 #28

yes, nobody liked nixon. spanone Feb 2015 #29

Most definitely. People were still so distraught from the JFK horrific day... onecent Feb 2015 #31

No possible way of knowing. Only conjecture. n/t cherokeeprogressive Feb 2015 #32

If they had left him on the ballot Kelvin Mace Feb 2015 #33

I think he would have. jwirr Feb 2015 #34

Yes. n/t GP6971 Feb 2015 #35