United States Presidential Election, 1968 (The FDR Amendment)

The United States Presidential Election of 1968 was the 46th quadriennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 5, 1968. It was won by the Democratic nominee, Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York, who defeated former Vice-Presidential candidate and Presidential candidate Richard Nixon,  the Republican nominee - by a landslide in the popular vote as a result both of unprecedentedly high turnout among students and minority voters in support of his campaign, fought on a platform of expanded civil rights, and opposition to the Vietnam War, and of depressed turnout in the South, where Nixon swept the board - and handily in the electoral college.