Statistics for The US Election of 1968

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Question	Answer	% Correct
For which party did the winning candidate run for?	Republican	96%
Who was the winning candidate?	Richard Nixon	96%
Which controversial war was raging at the time?	Vietnam War	85%
Which party did the main opposing candidate run for?	Democratic	81%
Who was the incumbent that withdrew early in the primaries?	Lyndon B. Johnson	81%
Who was the conservative challenger to the winning president in the primaries, who later became president himself?	Ronald Reagan	81%
Who became vice president?	Spiro Agnew	81%
Who was the main opposing party's candidate?	Hubert Humphrey	73%
What did the winning candidate promise to restore? (Perhaps in response to the riots above)	Law and Order	73%
What was the winning candidate's home state?	New York	73%
Where was the location of one party's National Convention, where anti war protests turned into riots that may have contributed to the party's loss in the election?	Chicago	69%
Who was the third party's candidate?	George Wallace	62%
Who was the opposing vice presidential candidate?	Edmund Muskie	46%
What was the newly formed third party in this election?	American Independent	42%
What was the closest state?	Missouri (1.15%)	42%