Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1968, e rua nga hoa whawhai matua o te tīkiti Nixon-Agnew. Ko ngā Democrats, i
He huihuinga i raru i nga whakaaturanga tutu, i whakaingoatia e te Perehitini Tuarua a Hubert Humphrey me te Kaunihera o Maine a Edmund Muskie hei kaikawe i a raatau. Ko te Kawana o mua o Alabama, a George Wallace, i rere hei kaitono tuatoru, a i whakaarohia kia pai tana mahi i te Deep South. Ko Nixon, e mahara ana ki nga herenga i whakapau kaha ai ia hei hoa whakahaere a Eisenhower i te 1952 me te 1956, i whakatauhia kia nui ake te mana o Agnew me te maarama ko tana hoa whakahaere tana tautoko. Ka taea hoki e Agnew te whai hua ki te mahi i te "kanohi whakaeke", pera i a Nixon i te tau 1952.