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So, what if Gene McCarthy got the Democratic nomination in '68 and somehow (through the intervention of the fey Allen Specter Butler) manages to beat Nixon. What would his (presumably) one-term presidency have looked like? I suppose we ought to consider how he could realistically get the nomination, unless we'd also like to attribute that to the shadowy Mr. Butler