I don’t believe all the Kennedy acolytes who think he’d have beaten Nixon had he not been killed. Much is made of his “uniting” the Black and White working class. Before his assassination he was talking law and order in White areas and sounding like MLK in Black areas. There is no way that as skilled and unscrupulous a politician as Richard Nixon would have let Bobby get away with that.
I'm inclined to agree. At the time I looked down on RFK as an opportunist for horning in on the anti-war vote aroused by McCarthy. Of course opportunism is the lifeblood of politics, so who knows what might have happened.
I don’t believe all the Kennedy acolytes who think he’d have beaten Nixon had he not been killed. Much is made of his “uniting” the Black and White working class. Before his assassination he was talking law and order in White areas and sounding like MLK in Black areas. There is no way that as skilled and unscrupulous a politician as Richard Nixon would have let Bobby get away with that.
I'm inclined to agree. At the time I looked down on RFK as an opportunist for horning in on the anti-war vote aroused by McCarthy. Of course opportunism is the lifeblood of politics, so who knows what might have happened.