Biden Needs to Learn From the Democrats' Disaster in '68 - WSJ - 0 views
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The conventional wisdom of 1968 was that Humphrey lost to Nixon because he couldn’t find the courage to break with Johnson on a war that a majority of Americans had come to oppose.
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That’s almost certainly wrong: Disaffected liberals ultimately came back, but disaffected blue-collar voters, who largely supported the war and abhorred the chaos in the streets, defected to Nixon or to George Wallace. (A Harris Poll found that two-thirds of respondents supported the Chicago cops’ tactics.)
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The shrunken Democratic base that emerged from the election is very much the one the party relies on today: Blacks and well-educated white liberals.