Ah, the 60's and 70's are such a fun time for politics; messy and hectic as hell. Any other period is generally somewhat settled and either a solid party block for Presidential dominance or a tug of war between parties going back. But in the 1960's and 1970's, anything could happen.Did this once, by turning the 1960s into a nightmare...
1972 was a contest between Wallace/Jackson vs incumbent President Goldwater and Independent Candidate Gene McCarthy.
Wallace won with a 41% of the popular vote...
No one could beat Nixon that year, unless Christ runs as a Democrat or Zombie FDR returns, and Nixon probably beats Zombie FDR.![]()
I was reading that Nixon actually wrote hagiographical press articles about himself when feeling depressed.
Well, duh.
One is a Foreign national, and the other one is barred by the 22nd amendment.
Who are "they"? The Kennedys?
No one could beat Nixon that year, unless Christ runs as a Democrat or Zombie FDR returns, and Nixon probably beats Zombie FDR.
Here's a Wallace/Humphrey v. Nixon/Agnew map.
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(R) Richard M. Nixon/ Spiro T. Agnew: 354 EV, 56.4%
(D) George C. Wallace/ Hubert H. Humphrey: 184 EV, 43.5%
Incumbent President: Richard Nixon (R)
Admittedly I don't know alot about Hubert H. Humphrey, but would he really run with George Wallace, or vice-versa?
Patriot: absolutely not, Hubert wouldn't run with Wallace. None of the '68 contenders would run with each other, for different reasons.
Mav: Maybe not Sam Yorty (though the closest to a Northern Wallace IMO), because he endorsed Nixon in 1960 and therefore would be as toxic to the Dems as Joe Lieberman was in '08.
Wasn't Truman a bit of a blue dog rather than a New Dealer/Prog?Patriot, for further ideological reference.
Gene McCarthy= Paul Wellstone (Liberal Dem)
Hubert Humphrey= Harry Truman (New Dealer/Progressive)
Robert Kennedy= Bill Clinton (New Democrat)