1968 Republican Party presidential primaries

Schedule and results

1968 Republican primaries and state conventions

Note:

Candidates

The following political leaders were candidates for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination:

Nominee

Other major candidates

These candidates participated in multiple state primaries or were included in multiple major national polls.

Favorite sons

The following candidates ran only in their home state's primary, caucus, or convention. They ran for the purpose of controlling their state's respective delegate slate at the national convention and did not appear to be considered national candidates by the media. The media referred to them as "favorite son" candidates. File:Spiro Agnew.jpg|Governor Spiro Agnew of Maryland (endorsed Nixon) File:CAC CC 001 18 24 0000 2328.jpg|Governor Dewey F. Bartlett of Oklahoma (endorsed Nixon) File:Daniel Jackson Evans portrait.png|Governor Daniel J. Evans of Washington File:Walter Hickel 1970.jpg|Governor Wally Hickel of Alaska (endorsed Nixon) File:Governor James A. Rhodes at Christmas tree lighting ceremony - DPLA - c2aa15c99af06f050c54567e3d7524f6 (cropped).jpg|Governor James A. Rhodes of Ohio (endorsed Rockefeller) File:GovShaferMay67 N2.tif|Governor Raymond P. Shafer of Pennsylvania (endorsed Rockefeller) File:Hiram Fong.jpg|Senator Hiram Fong of Hawaii (endorsed Nixon) File:John Volpe (1970).jpg|Governor John Volpe of Massachusetts (endorsed Nixon) File:Frank Carlson (R-KS).jpg|Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas File:Clifford P Case.jpg|Senator Clifford Case of New Jersey File:Strom Thurmond 1967 cropped.png|Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina (endorsed Nixon) File:John Tower (R-TX) (cropped).jpg|Senator John Tower of Texas (endorsed Nixon)

Declined to run

The following persons were listed in two or more major national polls or were the subject of media speculation surrounding their potential candidacy, but declined to actively seek the nomination. File:Barry Goldwater 1968 (3x4 cropped).webp|Former Senator and 1964 GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater of Arizona (ran for U.S. Senate) File:Henry Cabot Lodge Jr (R-MA) (cropped).jpg|Ambassador and former 1960 GOP vice presidential nominee Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts File:Senator_Everett_Dirksen_(cropped).webp|Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois File:Charles Percy (Illinois Blue Book Portrait 1971-1972).png|Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois (endorsed Rockefeller) File:Mark Hatfield – 1967 (cropped) (alt).jpg|Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon File:Thruston B Morton.jpg|Senator Thruston Ballard Morton of Kentucky (endorsed Rockefeller) File:Robert Taft Jr.jpg|Representative Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio File:Claude Kirk.jpg|Governor Claude R. Kirk Jr. of Florida (endorsed Rockefeller) File:John_D.Lodge(cropped).jpg|Former Governor John Davis Lodge of Connecticut (endorsed Nixon) File:William Scranton-cropped.jpg|Former Governor William Scranton of Pennsylvania File:John Lindsay (cropped).jpg|Mayor of New York City John Lindsay (endorsed Rockefeller) File:Major General James M. Gavin, 82nd Airborne Division, 1944-45 (44235027871).jpg|Retired Lt. General James M. Gavin

Polling

National polling

Before November 1966

After November 1966

Head-to-head polling

Nixon v. Romney

Statewide polling

New Hampshire

Primary race

Nixon was the front-runner for the Republican nomination and to a great extent the story of the Republican primary campaign and nomination is the story of one Nixon opponent after another entering the race and then dropping out.

Nixon's first challenger was Michigan Governor George W. Romney. Romney's grandfather, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had emigrated to Mexico in 1886 with his three wives and their children, after the U.S. federal government outlawed polygamy. However Romney's parents (monogamous under new church doctrine) retained their U.S. citizenship and returned to the United States with him and his siblings in 1912. Questions were occasionally asked about Romney's eligibility to hold the office of President due to his birth in Mexico, given an asserted ambiguity in the United States Constitution over the phrase "natural-born citizen". By February 1967, some newspapers were questioning Romney's eligibility given his Mexican birth.{{cite news | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2012/05/29/romneys-birth-certificate-evokes-his-fathers-controversy/

A Gallup poll in mid-1967 showed Nixon with 39%, followed by Romney with 25%. However, in a slip of the tongue, Romney told a news reporter that he had been "brainwashed" by the military and the diplomatic corps into supporting the Vietnam War; the remark led to weeks of ridicule in the national news media. As the year 1968 opened, Romney was opposed to further American intervention in Vietnam and had decided to run as the Republican version of Eugene McCarthy (The New York Times 2/18/1968). Romney's support slowly faded and he withdrew from the race on February 28, 1968. (The New York Times 2/29/1968).

Nixon won a resounding victory in the important New Hampshire primary on March 12, winning 78% of the vote. Anti-war Republicans wrote in the name of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, the leader of the GOP's liberal wing, who received 11% of the vote and became Nixon's new challenger. Nixon led Rockefeller in the polls throughout the primary campaign. Rockefeller defeated Nixon in the Massachusetts primary on April 30 but otherwise fared poorly in the state primaries and conventions.

By early spring, California Governor Ronald Reagan, the leader of the GOP's conservative wing, had become Nixon's chief rival. In the Nebraska primary on May 14, Nixon won with 70% of the vote to 21% for Reagan and 5% for Rockefeller. While this was a wide margin for Nixon, Reagan remained Nixon's leading challenger. Nixon won the next primary of importance, Oregon, on May 15 with 65% of the vote and won all the following primaries except for California (June 4), where only Reagan appeared on the ballot. Reagan's margin in California gave him a plurality of the nationwide primary vote, but when the Republican National Convention assembled, Nixon had 656 delegates according to a UPI poll (with 667 needed for the nomination).

Total popular vote

• Ronald Reagan – 1,696,632 (37.93%)
• Richard Nixon – 1,679,443 (37.54%)
• James A. Rhodes – 614,492 (13.74%)
• Nelson A. Rockefeller – 164,340 (3.67%)
• Unpledged – 140,639 (3.14%)
• Eugene McCarthy (write-in) – 44,520 (1.00%)
• Harold Stassen – 31,655 (0.71%)
• John Volpe – 31,465 (0.70%)
• Others – 21,456 (0.51%)
• George Wallace (write-in) – 15,291 (0.34%)
• Robert F. Kennedy (write-in) – 14,524 (0.33%)
• Hubert Humphrey (write-in) – 5,698 (0.13)
• Lyndon Johnson (write-in) – 4,824 (0.11%)
• George Romney – 4,447 (0.10%)
• Raymond P. Shafer – 1,223 (0.03%)
• William W. Scranton – 724 (0.02%)
• Charles H. Percy – 689 (0.02%)
• Barry M. Goldwater – 598 (0.01%)
• John V. Lindsay – 591 (0.01%)

Endorsements

;Former Presidents

• Dwight Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States

;U.S. Senators

• Edward Brooke (R-MA)
• Clifford Case (R-NJ)
• Mark Hatfield (R-OR)
• Jacob Javits (R-NY)
• Thruston Morton (R-KY)
• Charles H. Percy (R-IL)
• Hugh Scott (R-PA)

;U.S. Representatives

• Edward G. Biester Jr. (R-PA)
• Daniel Button (R-NY)
• Silvio Conte (R-MA)
• Paul Findley (R-IL)
• Gilbert Gude (R-MD)
• Seymour Halpern (R-NY)
• Margaret Heckler (R-MA)
• Frank Horton (R-NY)
• John Lindsay (R-NY)
• Pete McCloskey (R-CA)
• William E. Miller (R-NY)
• Ogden Reid (R-NY)
• Richard Schweiker (R-PA)
• Charles W. Whalen Jr. (R-OH)

;Governors

• John Chafee (R-RI)
• Daniel J. Evans (R-WA)
• Claude R. Kirk Jr. (R-FL)
• John A. Love (R-CO)
• Tom McCall (R-OR)
• Winthrop Rockefeller (R-AR)
• George W. Romney (R-MI)
• Raymond P. Shafer (R-PA)

;Celebrities

• Nancy Ames, singer
• Kitty Carlisle, actress
• Billy Daniels, singer
• Hildegarde, singer
• Teresa Wright, actress

;Individuals

• Ralph Abernathy, civil rights activist
• Philip Johnson, architect
• Maria Tallchief, dancer

;Representatives

• Charles Mathias (R-MD)
• Don Riegle (R-MI)

;Governors

• David Cargo (R-MN)
• William Scranton (R-PA)

;Lieutenant governors

• William Milliken (R-MI)

The convention

At the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, Reagan and Rockefeller planned to unite their forces in a stop-Nixon movement, but the strategy fell apart when neither man agreed to support the other for the nomination. Rockefeller in particular was seen as unacceptable to Southern Conservatives. Nixon won the nomination on the first ballot. He was able to secure the nomination because of the support of many Southern delegates, after he and his subordinates made concessions to Strom Thurmond and Harry Dent. Nixon then chose Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew to be his Vice-Presidential candidate, despite complaints from within the GOP that Agnew was an unknown quantity, and that a better-known and more popular candidate, such as Romney, should have been the Vice-Presidential nominee. However, Agnew was seen as a candidate who could appeal to Rockefeller Republicans, was acceptable to Southern Conservatives, and had a solid law-and-order record. It was also reported that Nixon's first choice for running mate was his longtime friend and ally, Robert Finch, who was the lieutenant governor of California since 1967 and later his HEW Secretary, but Finch declined the offer.

Notes

References

Bibliography

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91. (June 12, 1968). "TOWER GETS SUPPORT AT GOP CONVENTION". Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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94. (May 16, 1968). "16 NATIONAL DELEGATES UNPLEDGED". Hartford Courant.
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100. (June 23, 1968). "REAGAN BACKERS CLAIM HALF COMMITTED STATE DELEGATES". Clovis News-Journal.
101. (June 23, 1968). "STATE GOP VOTES WILL GO TO NIXON". The Spokesman-Review.
102. (June 30, 1968). "MARTIN GETS POST ON FIRST BALLOT". The Dothan Eagle.
103. (June 30, 1968). "ROCKEFELLER CALLS FOR PARTY UNIT AT ARKANSAS MEETING". The Times.
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105. (June 30, 1968). "G.O.P. LIST PRO-NIXON". The Kansas City Star.
106. (June 30, 1968). "POFF AND WAMPLER RENOMINATED". The Roanoke Times.
107. (July 14, 1968). "REAGAN GETS 5 GOP DELEGATES". The Ogden Standard-Examiner.
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