would bobby kennedy have won the presidential election?
605262
No one knows for sure, but he had the passion and charisma that Jack had and in some ways had a better sense about him. I think he was leading in the polls when he was killed. So there would have been a good chance of it yes.
13316
To answer your second question...evidently, yes.\nAs to the first, Oh, if only there had been a retarded chimp on the ballot, how much better the outcome might have been.... I almost swoon to think of the improvement that would represent!
551015
The theory that Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy is among one of the top accepted theories. As Vice-President at the time of the assination Johnson had much to gain with the death of Kennedy. It was also under wide speculation during that time that Kennedy was planning to drop Johnson during the next election because he was a liability. Also, prior to Kennedy's death Johnson was the subject of four major criminal investigations involving government contract violations, misappropriation of funds, money laundering and bribery. All of these "disappeared" after November 22nd.
1069676
Hard to say. But presumably, Kennedy would have been more cautious than LBJ regarding Vietnam. I doubt he would have gone the route of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution and the subsequent massive escalation, but that's hard to prove. Without the massive escalation, no protests, no hippie-dippie idiots, etc.\n\nIt would have been very different.
245966
I hope so.\n\nFirst Texas killed JFK, then they gave us Bush.\n\nThe fewer Texans, the better!
816431
Johnson did it, he wanted to be President so bad that nothing else mattered!! Or maybe it was Lee Harvey Oswald, or someone else on the concrete knoll with green grass painted on it.
567685
It is so hard to speculate what he would have done. An assassins bullet ended any hope for a Kennedy to be president. However he had the same drive as his brother Jack and had that Kennedy charisma that was well understood at the time. His stint as attorney general earmarked the fact that he was tough on organized crime. His public service record was certainly wonderful. I think he would have advanced the civil rights movement. Johnson's war on poverty would have not lost steam and many people would have advanced in life. I would hope that we would have public health care by now if he had been president then. What is wrong with the richest peoples on earth providing a means for a hand up to people that have been pushed down for so long.
123564
Lyndon Baines Johnson was the president after John Fitzgerald Kennedy
883170
Only if he/she is a Demorat/Kennedy.
722932
It doesn't matter! He's a Kennedy. He could get away with murder if he tried.
422852
Kerry would've gone "****" and then resigned.
566871
Lincoln is a good answer as he guided this country through the darkest period that being the Civil War. However I would like to submit for you consideration John F Kennedy. He - almost single handedly - averted world war three and a nuclear holocaust. It was during the Cuban missile crises of 1962. The military leaders were chomping at the bit to invade Cuba and bomb the missiles. Kennedy had the foresite to see that such an action would prompt Russia to invade Berlin as a retaliation. That would invoke the NATO defense agreement and we would have been at war with Russia. Consequently we would not be having this dialog. Kennedy used a level head, tact, and guts to stare not only Russia, but his war happy generals in the eye and not flinch. A deal was struck with Russia in that we removed our - obsolete - missiles from Turkey and they would remove their - up to date - missiles from Cuba. Thus we are alive and well. That to me puts John Fitzgerald Kennedy over the top. World disaster averted through strong leadership and cool calculating under pressure. The missiles in Turkey were scheduled to be removed anyway.
290357
Not really possible unless evidence surfaces that he intentionally killed her.\nIn legal terms, the trick is that Kennedy would be tried for the crime using the laws on the books at the time. And the laws of that time did not really go after people for accidents associated with drunk driving.\nLaws are seldom created with a retroactive clause.\nEven by todays standards, he would probably only be charged with maybe a negligent homicide tied to a dui.
280124
Nixon did a couple of things that Bobby wouldn't have done. He took the dollar off of the silver standard and allowed it to float which devalued it. He also allowed Private ownership of gold which took investment money out of the markets. He also was one of those supply side economic Repuglicans that tried and failed to boost the economy. I don't think that Bobby would have done any of those things. I am not sure what he would have done about the Viet Nam war but I don't think he would have turned tail and run. That is about the only thing that Nixon did that I could agree with. We needed to get out of there.
759218
Nope.  He got thumped only getting 34% of the vote.
1141826
I certainly think he would have made an interesting President.  He is obviously very intelligent, and believes in a path to help the USA.  I think he speaks his mind too much to be a viable candidate, but I would vote for him in a heartbeat.
1159137
Did he win? I thought he stold the election!