ABSTRACT
The Republican party will gain a substantial majority in the House of Representatives. In Richard Nixon's case, his relative lack of personal popularity means that in most states he will run behind the congressional Republican. The hostility of Democratic activists to their presidential candidate will be expressed in many ways. The dissatisfaction of Democratic activists will work changes in the present voting preferences of those who identify themselves with the Democratic party. A unified base of support in the country will surely help Nixon govern. The overwhelming problem faced by Hubert Humphrey is not winning the election, however insuperable the odds, but governing the country should he happen to win. The outcome of the 1968 election may be of critical importance in determining the shape of the future party system and the content of American political life. Predicting the Nixon administration's foreign policy is relatively easy because internal political forces will produce substantially the same results.
