The 1968 presidential election remains the historic Gold Standard for volatility, drama, violence, and tragedy. Plagued by the Vietnam War, incumbent Lyndon Johnson renounced his candidacy after peace candidate Eugene McCarthy exposed the president’s vulnerability in the New Hampshire Democrat Primary.
Subsequently, Robert F Kennedy, brother of the late President John F Kennedy, jumped into the Democrat race, only to be assassinated after winning the California primary. Only two months before, Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis.
2024 U.S. Presidential Election Betting Odds
U.S. 2024 Next President Elected
| U.S. 2024 NEXT PRESIDENT ELECTED |
| Kamala Harris +166 |
Michelle Obama +6700 |
Donald Trump -200 |
| Gretchen Whitmer +65000 |
Hillary Clinton +20000 |
Gavin Newsom +60000 |
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr. +18500 |
Josh Shapiro +95000 |
J.D. Vance +13500 |
U.S. Presidential Election 2024 - Winning Party
Democratic Party +164
Republican Party -202
Other Party +15000
*Odds as of Wednesday, July 24, 2024
There were raging riots, massive property destruction, and numerous deaths throughout the spring and summer of 1968 as America seemed to be on the brink of civil war. The Chicago Democrat National Convention was the climax of the rage when Mayor Richard Daley unleashed Chicago’s Finest on a mixture of druggies, degenerates, hippies, and Clean Gene McCartthy agitators with short haircuts, suits, ties, and dresses. The pictures were ugly but the “Silent Majority” approved.
America yearned for normalcy and turned to Republican Richard Nixon, who led the greatest political comeback in history, rising from the dead after losing the 1960 presidential election to JFK and then the 1960 California governor’s race. Nixon defeated LBJ’s vice president, Hubert Humphrey, and calmed the nation within three years.
Now, in 2024, the Presidential Election has similar dynamics. Incumbent Democrat Joe Biden has dropped out of the race with his vice president, Kamala Harris, the presumptive nominee. Meanwhile former President Donald Trump is coming off the most united Republican National Convention since 1984, when President Ronald Reagan was renominated and went on to a landslide victory, just as Nixon did in 1972.
Kamala Harris and the Politics of Race, Rage, and Division
If Harris is able to hold on and clinch the Democrat nomination, she will no doubt unleash a campaign based on the demagoguery of race and gender. She has nothing else to run on. The Republicans wasted no time tying all of the failed Biden policies that have caused so much misery to American citizens to Harris.
Biden appointed her Border Czar, and the Republicans are quick to remind Americans that at least ten million illegal aliens have been allowed to cross the border on purpose by Biden and Harris, an open mockery of the law, bringing a new element of crime, lower wages, and housing shortages with them. Harris routinely bragged about what the Biden Administration has “accomplished.” The Republicans can’t get enough of it.
Trump is the perfect Republican candidate to take on Harris. While most other Republicans would cower in fear and apologize in the face of Harris and her race-baiting, Trump will have none of it. He will blow Harris up with the truth of her destructive policies, being a lapdog to Biden, and an infamous past.
Certainly, Harris will pander the same way Barack Obama did in 2012 when he was in a dogfight against Mitt Romney for reelection. The Democrats went racial and ended up breaking free for a decisive win at the end. Obama and the Democrats wrote off the white working class and went with affluent, graduate-degree whites and a large minority vote to get the win.
Mitt Romney allowed himself to be curb-stomped. Trump will not. Further, Trump has been slandered as a racist so much that most of the public doesn’t even hear it anymore.
After eight years, everything that can be said about Trump has been said. Eventually, this election will come down to what the late President Gerald Ford called “pocketbook” issues. Inflation continues to roar, “jobs” are now part-time gigs with no benefits, and Americans want peace.
Many may not like Trump, but see him as a strongman who is needed to right the ship. Ironically, Trump is also seen as a victim of the lawfare he has faced and the failed assassination attempt.
Of course, the Democrats do have the machine that gives them a 3-point advantage at a bare minimum. But this time, it may not be enough. It is universally understood that Kamala Harris is quite unlikeable the more voters get to know her. Only five of her original staff of 48 are still on the payroll. She flopped miserably in the 2020 Democrat primary race. There is a reason for that.
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