Anybody interested in an alternate 1968 election?

Hola, everybody!

So, I recently got this dinky old 1988 game to work on my PC under Dosbox:

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And it turned out that the game made some very interesting results when I simulated elections in ahistorical mode, so I got an idea for an alternate 1968 election. Unfortunately, the forum I was already part of greeted the thing with a "meh", so I decided to try and sign up for the AHDB instead.

So: anybody interested in an alternate 1968 election that's between Johnson, Nixon and Wallace?
 
Yes I see many different possiblities. The easiest is a Humphrey, which is my second favorite behind RFK wins. There always a different Republican nominee. So I look forward to this.
 
Very much so.

Thanks, Plumber!

The first thread I made on this on another forum only got one response though, so I'll give it a bit more time to make sure I'm not barking up the wrong tree.

Yes I see many different possiblities. The easiest is a Humphrey, which is my second favorite behind RFK wins. There always a different Republican nominee. So I look forward to this.

Thanks, Paul, but I don't think the ideas I had in mind include your possibilities. Sorry, I guess you'll need another thread for those...
 
Since you put this up, I've been using this program to run through fastforward, "War Games" style scenario run throughs. The results have been mixed. I did manage to get an interesting 1968 where Nixon/Bush won the election by 60-some electoral votes, but lost the popular vote handily to Symington/Muskie (George Wallace only winning Alabama and Mississippi).
 
So is this an alt-1968 election based on your ideas, or the scenario thrown up by the game you got working on your computer?

Combination of sorts - it was my idea to begin with to try Johnson-Nixon-Wallace, and then I ran a few scenarios both on computer autopilot and on manual to see if this sounded like a workable idea, and how it would turn out.

I have to admit though, I have a few other ideas for once it gets started, but I'm not sure if I should post them here first and give away everything but find out which aren't workable, or just plow ahead and then have to revise things.

Sorry if I wasn't clearer earlier, but I guess I could start up separate threads for other scenarios like Paul's, if anybody's interested? Though that'd probably be a bit harsh on my schedule...

I just hope that if enough people are interested and I start the thread, it turns out well, since I've never really tried alternate history before...
 
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I used to play the hell out of President Elect back in the day. The scenario I used to play the most in '68 was to try and get Wallace elected as a third-party candidate.

I couldn't do it, but if you edit in a Democrat to have 100% liberal positions and 1-1-1 attributes, and then edit in the Republican candidate to have 100% conservative positions and 1-1-1 attributes, you can get Wallace to throw the election to the House by sweeping the entire South. Sadly, the program (which I think is like 48K and written in BASIC!) doesn't have a mechanism for resolving those elections; it just says something like "The Democrats control the house, so <Democratic Candidate> is elected on a party-line vote," and then game over.

I think the way PE divvies up regions that winds up excluding Oklahoma (part of the Midwest) and Kentucky (part of the Industrial Midwest) even though those are demographically in Wallace's wheelhouse, so you wind up with VA, NC, SC, GA, AL, FL, MS, LA, AR, TN, and TX for 128 EV. I seem to recall that's pretty much Wallace's ceiling no matter what else you do.
 
Just to clarify though: I'm not going to stop at the 1968 election. Hopefully as much as my knowledge can help, I'll go beyond as well.
 
Okay then, I guess I am going to be making a thread about this after all. Here's hoping it doesn't turn out bad.
 
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