Kammala wannan magana: Kashe Robert Kennedy ya bar Mataimakin Shugaban Hubert Humphrey da Eugene McCarthy suna fafatawa don takarar Democrat. Humphrey ya lashe zaben a zaben farko, amma
Taron 'yan Democrat na 1968 a Chicago ya kasance bala'i tare da' yan sanda da ke yaƙi da masu fafutukar zaman lafiya waɗanda ke nuna rashin amincewa da Yaƙin Vietnam. Taron jam'iyyar Republican ya tafi da kyau sosai tare da tsohon mataimakin shugaban kasa Richard Nixon wanda ya karbi takarar a kuri'ar farko. Gwamnan Alabama George Wallace dan takarar Jam'iyyar 'Yancin Amurka ne. A ranar zabe, tseren ya kasance wuyansa da wuyansa, tare da Nixon ya fitar da nasara mai nasara. Nixon ya sami kuri'u 31,785,480 (43.4%), Humphrey ya sami kuri'u 31,275,166, kuma Wallace ya sami kuri'u 9,906,473.