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Nixon Goes Under​

1969-1973: Hubert Humphrey / Ed Muskie (Democratic)
def. 1968
Richard Nixon / Spiro Agnew (Republican)

1973-1981: Mike Gravel / Fred Harris (Democratic)
def. 1972
John Ashbrook / Frank Carlson (Republican)

def. 1976
Charles Percy / Daniel Evans (Republican)
James Buckley / Louis Frey (Conservative)

1981-1985: Fred Harris / William Proxmire (Democratic)
def. 1980
George Bush / H. John Heinz (Conservative)
James Edwards / Stewart McKinney (Republican)

1985-???: George Bush / Mark Andrews (Conservative)
def. 1984
Fred Harris / William Proxmire (Democratic)

In 1968, LBJ releases information implicating Richard Nixon in stalling Vietnam Peace Talks through surrogate Anna Chennault. Although not entirely believed at the time, it's enough to push HHH over the edge in a nailbiter against Nixon. Despite HHH's general unpopularity, new information coming out from the Chennault scandal tanks the GOP nationally. America withdraws from Vietnam in '71, but HHH is still successfully primaried by Mike Gravel. Gravel capitalizes off a weakened opposition for his entire Presidency, and despite a large recession in the late 70's, manages to successfully push his VP Fred Harris to the White House in 1980. By this point, numerous high-profile Republican politicians have joined the new Conservative Party, and in 1980 they pull ahead of the GOP as the main opposition party.

Finally, in 1984, they break two decades of Democratic dominance.
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