AHC: Reverse Reagan

Your challenge is to think up of a scenario where instead of the Democrats shifting to the center to confront the rightward GOP influenced by the Regan era, it's the GOP that is forced to shift to the center because of how left US politics has become.

NOTE: Current state of GOP post-Romney dosen't count as a scenario.
 
Hubert Humphrey beats Nixon in 1968, and beats Reagan by a landslide in 1972. A moderate like Chuck Percy becomes the Jimmy Carter of the OTL, and a liberal Democrat like Adlai Stevenson III is elected in 1980.
 
LBJ gets two terms: 1964 still a massive landslide victory over Goldwater then another against Nixon. The GOP gets the idea that the transition from hard right Goldwater to comparatively centrist Nixon isn't enough and goes further to the left with whoever the next guy is. No idea who that could be though...
 
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