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Why did some Democrats oppose Hubert Humphrey in his 1968 race for the presidency?
They did not agree with his stand on civil rights.
They refused to back a Republican candidate for President.
They did not like his association with the administration’s Vietnam policy.
They wanted President Johnson to run for a second full term.

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They did not like his association with the administration’s Vietnam policy.

Humphrey was closely identified with President Johnson and the administration’s Vietnam stance, and many Democrats—especially antiwar voters and supporters of Eugene McCarthy and Robert Kennedy—opposed him for that reason.