AHC: Major party national ticket with two governors after 1948

The last major party national ticket with two governors on it was Dewey-Warren (R) 1948. (Of course it lost--the last *winning* two-governors ticket was Wilson-Marshall in 1912.) What are the most likely possibilities since then? (I'm including recent ex-governors as "governors" as long as they didn't go on to some other office, like senator, after they left the governorship.)

(1) 1956--Stevenson-Harriman(D)? (Such a ticket was also suggested in 1952 but Harriman was not yet governor of New York.)

(2) If Nelson Rockefeller had not remarried, he might (but probably would not) have won the GOP nomination in 1964, and might have picked a western governor to balance the ticket geographically. (John Love of Colorado was one possibility. As it was, of course, a "Rockefeller-Love ticket" would simply remind voters of the remarriage...)

(3) 1968--Romney (without the "brainwashed" gaffe)-Reagan or vice-versa (R)? In 1966, the day after Romney's re-election as governor of Michigan he gave Reagan a call and suggested using his model "to put together throughout the country what you have put together in California." When reporters asked about a Romney-Reagan ticket, Romney replied "That's so hypothetical I don't even want to count on it."
https://books.google.com/books?id=fjemCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT990

(4) 1976--Carter-Jerry Brown (D)? (It could help the ticket in California--but it also doubles down on foreign policy inexperience.)

(5) 1976--Reagan-Rhodes or even Reagan-Rocky (R)? See https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/whos-the-vp.379829/#post-11909568 ("But Sears' real first choice is shocking--Nelson Rockefeller! When asked what the reaction of Helms and other conservatives would be, Sears replied 'They would have come off the ceiling in a day or two.' Sears added, 'I thought very strongly that he [Rockefeller] would have liked the irony of it, and he had firm control of his delegates. And, Mrs. Reagan liked him a lot.'...")

(6) 1992--Clinton-Babbitt (D)? The idea is to appeal to westerners and environmentalists. See http://www.newsweek.com/manhattan-project-1992-199740 for some other governors who were considered including Barbara Roberts of Oregon and Ann Richards of Texas.

(7) 2000--Bush-Ridge (R)? Ridge is a Catholic, a Vietnam veteran, a friend of John McCain (who might therefore help to heal the wounds left by the primaries) and governor of a large swing state. Though presumably he would quickly have to "evolve" to the right on abortion to satisfy the convention..

(8) 2012-Romney-Christie (R)? Much talked about, but apparently Romney's team in vetting Christie found things they didn't like...

(BTW, "major party" excludes the Johnson-Weld Libertarian ticket of 2016...)
 
Just looking at semi-plausible VP changes, you have (in addition to the ones you listed)

- Romney/Pawlenty
- Bush/Engler
- Bush/Keating

Romney/Pawlenty is probably the most plausible one of those since Pawlenty is at least vaguely similar to who Romney ended up choosing.
 
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