Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Na te kohurutanga o Robert Kennedy i whakataetae ai te Perehitini Tuarua a Hubert Humphrey raua ko Eugene McCarthy mo te whakaingoatanga a te Manapori. I riro a Humphrey i te whakaingoatanga i te pōti tuatahi, engari ko te
Ko te Kaunihera Manapori o te tau 1968 i Chicago he parekura i te taha o nga pirihimana e whawhai ana ki nga kaitautoko o te rangimarie e whakahe ana ki te Pakanga i Vietnam. He pai ake te haere o te huihuinga Republican me te Perehitini Tuarua o mua a Richard Nixon i whiwhi i te tohu i te pooti tuatahi. Ko te Kawana o Alabama a George Wallace he kaitono no te American Independent Party. I te rā pōtitanga, kua tata tonu te whakataetae, ā, he wikitōria paku a Nixon. I whiwhi a Nixon i nga pooti 31,785,480 (43.4%), i whiwhi a Humphrey i nga pooti 31,275,166, a i whiwhi a Wallace i nga pooti 9,906,473.