Reply #16: No. He couldn't have gotten the nomination. [View All]

[Bucky]

Humphrey already had the nomination locked up. Kennedy was hoping to shake loose the committed delegates controlled by party bosses, who still controlled the nomination in 1968, by all his spectacular victories in the primaries. But this was before the reforms of the early 1970s. In fact, Bobby Kennedy's murder was probably the cause of those reforms.

Kennedy would have had a serious chance in 1972, but by then Nixon was a much stronger candidate. When you steal an election and win 59% of the national vote, it means you didn't need to steal the election. But of course this thread isn't really about the tragedy that was Nixon.