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In this list, George Romney never makes the "brainwashing" comments and goes on to defeat Nixon for the nomination. Sirhan Sirhan decides to shoot Hubert Humphrey instead of RFK, giving Kennedy the nomination. The more liberal major party nominees make sure there is no electoral majority. Wallace keeps a firm grip on his electors/House voters, hoping that the Southern Smathers becomes Acting President. The AIP makes huge gains in the 1970 mid-terms. When Bobby Kennedy is giving his victory speech for the 1970 Senate race, a white supremacist assassinates Kennedy, leaving only Romney and Wallace in the race. The AIP makes a coalition with Southern Democrats, leaving Wallace to officially become the President. The major 1972 Democratic candidates are Eugene McCarthy, Scoop Jackson, Harold Hughes, and Congressman Mills. The Republicans have a battle between Governor Rockefeller, Senator Tower, and former Congressman Bush. Finally, the AIP nomination is a shoo-in for Wallace, until Arthur Bremer shoots the President on a state visit to Canada. Vice President Smathers is sworn in, and quickly announces a run for the Democratic nomination. The convention ends up being a near tie between Jackson and Smathers. The Washington Senator attempts to gain moderate and Southern voters by naming Georgia Governor James Carter as his running mate, but Smathers still wins the nomination. Governor Rockefeller wins the Republican nomination, picking Tower as a sign of party unity. The AIP picks California Congressman John H. Rousselot as their nominee, taking a not insignificant number of voters from Smathers. Rockefeller takes a strong lead in the polls until The New York Times publishes a story about an affair Rockefeller is having. The disgraced Governor drops out, leaving Tower to take over the ticket. The scandal causes a decline for the Republican ticket in the polls, but only one or two points away from the President. On election night, there is no majority, just like 1968. But nothing would go wrong, right? Nope. MacNamara dies in a plane crash, while a drunk Albert dies in a car crash. President Eastland! Eventually, the American people have had enough, leaving a Smathers/Evans administration after the 1974 mid-terms. With the AIP and Democrats having such a similar agenda, the two parties merge into the new Patriot Party, taking the John Bircher Republicans on for the ride. 1976 gives a victory for the new party, but things go downhill quickly, leaving the charismatic thirty-eight-year-old Delaware Governor to win in a resounding landslide. Unfortunately, he isn't in the best of health. Then, well, you'll just have to use your imagination on what happens next.

The Smathers Years: Death, Deadlock, and Deception in the Decade of Dead Dreams

1965-1968: Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey (Democrat)
1964: Barry Goldwater/William E. Miller (Republican)
1968: Lyndon B. Johnson/Vacant (Democrat)
1968-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson/Thomas Dodd (Democrat)
1969-1971: Vacant/George Smathers (Democrat)
1968: Robert Kennedy/George Smathers (Democrat), George Romney/George Bush (Republican), George Wallace/Happy Chandler (American Independent)
1971-1972: George Wallace/George Smathers (American Independent/Democrat)
1972: George Smathers/Vacant (Democrat)
1972-1973: George Smathers/Robert MacNamara (Democrat)
1973: Vacant/Robert MacNamara (Democrat)
1972: John Tower (replacing Nelson Rockefeller)/Daniel Evans (Republican), George Smathers/Robert MacNamara (Democrat), John H. Roussellot/George Mahoney (American Independent)
1973-1975: Vacant/James Eastland (Democrat)
1975-1977: George Smathers/Daniel Evans (Democrat/Republican)
1977-1981: George Smathers/Edwin Edwards (Patriot)
1976: William Milken/Mark Hatfield (Republican), Eugene McCarthy/Ron Dellums (Independent)
1981-1985: Joe Biden/Evan Mecham (Republican/Patriot)
1980: Joe Biden/Edward Brooke (Republican), Edwin Edwards/Evan Mecham (Patriot), Elizabeth Holtzman/Marion Berry (We Stand)
1985-1988: Joe Biden/Joe Skeen (Republican/Patriot)
1984: Joe Biden/Thomas Kean (Republican), Evan Mecham/Joe Skeen (Patriot)
1988-1989: Joe Skeen/Vacant (Patriot)
1989-1994: Evan Mecham/Joe Skeen (Patriot)
1988: Dave Treen/David Durenburger (Republican)
1992: Paul Simon/Alan Simpson (Republican)
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