Ku dhammee oraahdan soo socota: Bilowgii 1968, badankooda Dimuqraadiyiinta waxay filayeen in madaxweyne Lyndon B. Johnson in dib loo magacaabi doono. Rajadaas waxaa jabiyay Senator Eugene McCarthy, oo ololihiisa ku salaysnaa mucaaradka siyaasada Johnson ee Vietnam. McCarthy ayaa si dhib yar ugu badiyay Johnson doorashadii koowaad ee Xisbiga Dimuqraadiga bishii Maarso 12 ee New Hampshire, natiijooyinkii u dhow waxay ka yaabiyeen aasaaska xisbiga waxayna ku dhiirigeliyeen Senator Robert F. Kennedy ee New York inuu galo tartanka. Laba usbuuc ka dib, Johnson wuxuu u sheegay umada yaabka leh inuusan u tartami doonin mar labaad. Toddobaadyadii u danbeeyay, xoogaa xoogaa ka mid ah ololihii McCarthy ee horay u socday ayaa u weecday dhanka Kennedy. Madaxweyne ku xigeenka Hubert Humphrey wuxuu ku dhawaaqay musharaxnimadiisa, isagoo taageero ka helaya taageerayaasha Johnson. Kennedy waxaa dilay Sirhan Sirhan bishii Juun 1968, isaga oo ka tagay Humphrey iyo McCarthy oo ah labada musharax ee ugu waaweyn tartanka. Humphrey wuxuu ku guuleystay magacaabista madaxweynaha ee bisha Agoosto
Shirweynaha Qaranka ee Xisbiga Dimuqraadiga ee Chicago, iyo Senator Edmund Muskie oo ka soo jeeda gobolka Maine ayaa loo doortay in uu noqdo ku xigeenkiisa. Gudaha hoolka shirarka, kumanaan dhalinyaro ah oo u ololeeya diidmada dagaalka oo isugu yimid inay ka mudaaharaadaan dagaalka Vietnam ayaa si xun ula dhacay booliska. Qalalaasahaasi oo dunida oo dhan looga sii daayay telefishanka, ayaa curyaamiyay ololihii doorashada ee Humphrey. Baaritaankii maalinta shaqaalaha ee shirweynaha ka dib ayaa Humphrey ka dambeeyay Nixon in ka badan 20 boqolkiiba dhibcood.