That's The Ticket:
A Parade of Presidential Elections
Republican Ticket  | |
| Presidential candidate: | RICHARD NIXON, former Vice President |
| VP candidate: | SPIRO AGNEW, Maryland Governor |
| Popular votes: | 31,785,480 (43.4%) |
| Electoral votes: | 301 |
| Democratic Ticket | |
| Presidential candidate: | Hubert Humphrey, Vice President |
| VP candidate: | Edmund Muskie, Maine Senator |
| Popular votes: | 31,275,166 (42.7%) |
| Electoral votes: | 191 |
| American Independent Ticket | |
| Presidential candidate: | George Wallace, former Alabama Governor |
| VP candidate: | Curtis LeMay, former Air Force Chief of Staff |
| Popular votes: | 9,906,473 (13.5%) |
| Electoral votes: | 46 |
Election Facts
- The politics of discontent dominated this election.
- Nixon's campaign called for new strategies to address the unrest wrought by the escalation of the Vietnam War, rising crime, urban riots, inflation, and political assassinations.
- Humphrey tried to distance himself from Johnson's policies.
- Wallace ran one of the strongest third-party campaigns in history as a conservative who opposed Johnson's domestic programs but supported the war.
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