AHC: Screw America over as bad as possible in the 1968 election

Try to keep it plausible - George Wallace isn't getting elected, but he could do well enough to throw it to the House.
 
Looking at the electoral map- All you'd have to do is have Wallace win South Carolina and Tennessee which would put him at 65 electoral votes while Nixon would be at 282- You could then have Wallace take more votes in Missouri and have humphrey do better in New Jersey and you'd have it look like this

Wallace 65

Nixon 253

Humphrey 220

While Nixon would probably still have the popular vote- the infighting would be crazy and you'd have southern democrats and even some republicans threatening to go third party since even with Nixon's law and order stance they might feel that the end of segregation is evident
 
Get Humphrey to almost win 270 EV, and then when the electors vote, have all the Wallace electors vote for Nixon, giving him victory. Humphrey can then talk about a corrupt bargain and he can then win the presidency in 1972.

Nixon is now indebted to the far-right, so it also fucks up his presidency.
 
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