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JFK, America wants something new after 12 years of Republicans.Let's say that Nixon beats Humphrey (or Symington, or Johnson) in 1960. In 1964 JFK decides it's his time and runs against Nixon. Who wins?
JFK, America wants something new after 12 years of Republicans.Let's say that Nixon beats Humphrey (or Symington, or Johnson) in 1960. In 1964 JFK decides it's his time and runs against Nixon. Who wins?
JFK, America wants something new after 12 years of Republicans.
Much would have depended on how Nixon
would have handled Vietnam- & being the
hardline anti-Communist he was IOTL in the
early 60’s, I think if Nixon was President
then, he would have sent troops there. In
other words, the Vietnam War would have
started earlier than 1965. How this would have effected the 1964 POTUS election is
impossible to say.
I tried this on the Campaign trail, having Kennedy pick Humphrey as his running mate and running a campaign as close to the one Humphrey would have run as possible, and got this result:
https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/campaign-trail/game/902668
Nixon wins by a 2.9% margin in the nationwide popular vote and gets 288 electoral votes, 29 more than he needs. Nixon carries the states he carried IOTL, plus Texas, Missouri, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Nevada.
Closest states were Nixon over "Kennedy" by 26 votes in Nevada and Nixon over Byrd (the Dixiecrat) by 65 votes in Arkansas. The election is close enough that a switch of about 43,000 votes in the seven closest Nixon states, apart from Arkansas, gives "Kennedy" an electoral college majority, and switching California alone (margin for Nixon of about 19,000 votes, or 0.3%), would have sent the election to the House of Representatives.