Andrew Johnson Renominated?

So, in 1868, the deeply unpopular and recently impeached President Andrew Johnson tried to attain the Democratic nomination. That year's convention was remarkably entertaining, with the prospective nominee, Horatio Seymour of New York repeatedly refusing motions to nominate him. So, what if Seymour opposes these measures even more vociferously than OTL, and 20 more ballots or so ultimately give us a compromise candidate in Andrew Johnson? How would he do in the general, and what the results be for the Democratic Party and the US?
 
The thing is, Andrew Johnson was hated by everybody. The Republicans hated him as a Southern sympathizer who they viewed as basically sabotaging Reconstruction, while the Democrats viewed him as a traitor who had abandoned their party to side with Lincoln. Add in his personality, and there's no way he ends up as a compromise candidate. Even if Seymour continues to refuse, they won't give it to Johnson.
 
He'd still get crushed. Republicans by this point hated Johnson. Democrats didn't like or trust Johnson. Politically, he was dead once he sided against the Radical Republicans, which was inevitable anyway. The only thing they had in common (initially) was their hatred of Southern secessionists. Grant, meanwhile, was very popular. Very hard for him to lose in '68.
 
You may well be right about Johnson not getting the nomination, but let's say he does. Is this ebough (with butterflies) to kill the Democrats?
 
Well, they'd probably get set back a ways. The problem is that there were enough legitimate problems in Grant's administration that opposition wouldn't be that hard to maintain, not to mention that the White South is always going to be Democrat. I don't think this would be enough to kill the Democrats.
 
Nominating Johnson means the Dems lose New York and probably Oregon as well.

Otherwise not a lot changed. The only thing I can think of is that this leaves Seymour "available" for the 1872 nomination. If nominated he does better than Greeley(who doesn't?) but probably still loses to Grant.
 
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