Eugene Mc Carthy Presidential Campaign, 1968 - Aftermath

Aftermath

McCarthy's refusal to endorse Humphrey wavered somewhat by October, as the former candidate laid out conditions for the Democratic nominee. These included a shift in his stance on the Vietnam War, a change of the military draft, and a reform of the Democratic machine politics. Humphrey discussed the demands with McCarthy via telephone, and responded that he was "not prone to start meeting conditions," but that he is stating his "own case" as a candidate. At the end of October, McCarthy announced that he would vote for Humphrey, but would go no further than that. Nixon eventually won the election, and McCarthy received 20,721 write-in votes in California. and 2,751 in Arizona, where he was listed as the nominee of the anti-war "New Party." McCarthy also ran for the Democratic nomination in 1972, but soon dropped out. He mounted independent campaign in 1976 and received over 700 thousand votes. During the 1980s, McCarthy was a supporter of the Reagan administration, and tried once again for the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 1992. He died in 2005.