Lately, I've been doing a lot of reading on the Kennedy family. Namely, Jack's campaign and the legitimacy (or illegitimacy) of it. Though Camelot's always interested me, I've always had a few questions regarding it and those who came after it. Specifically, RFK and his run for the oval office.
With that in mind, how likely was Robert Kennedy to win the presidency? Coming off of a win in the California primary, he looks good as a candidate, but I can't find enough on the 1968 election to discern for myself how well he would've done against Nixon. While I'm not looking for a "what-if" scenario, I'm looking for a response to these two questions:
1.) How was RFK perceived as a candidate?
2.) Did he have any edges or advantages, politically, over Nixon?
Very likely. Unlike Nixon, he had the same charms as JFK, being very charismatic. He had the same Non-aggresion stance that JFK had, and the American people, shortly after the Tet Offensive of '68 (still raging on at the time of his death, but not by the election) were longing for that, as they were growing more and more tired of the Vietnam war. If RFK had been elected, he would most likely have tried to settle an honorable peace settlement between North and South Vietnam to end/settle the conflict faster. He would also probably have tried to beef up the South Vietnamese army and get rid of corruption in the South Vietnamese ranks. This, IMO, would have been his greatest asset to wining the election next to job creation and civil rights.
EDIT: Something I forgot to mention was how Kennedy's numbers would have gone up if he had survived the assasination attempt, similar to Reagan.