Geroge Wallace wins 1968 nomination

Anyways, I'll try to answer for '64, 72, and '76.
1964: Goldwater v. Wallace?? RFK and Rockefeller run on a combined third-party ticket and win based off sympathy, plurality, and Rockefeller able to fund a great campaign. I should do this in PE!
1972: McGovern runs third party. The Dems lose every state and the Progressives win DC.
1976: Wallace could actually win this one. Sure, McCarthy wins more votes, but after Watergate people want someone as anti-establishment as Wallace. His populist speeches and not screwing up like Carter give him a slim win. However, he is defeated by EMK in the '80 primaries.
 
Winning the Democratic nomination? Really? What kind of PoD leads to THAT? That massive a sea change in politics would make the whole future from then vastly different. So we really need to know HOW it happens, before any serious discussion of the results is meaningful.
 
Anyways, I'll try to answer for '64, 72, and '76.
1964: Goldwater v. Wallace?? RFK and Rockefeller run on a combined third-party ticket and win based off sympathy, plurality, and Rockefeller able to fund a great campaign. I should do this in PE!
1972: McGovern runs third party. The Dems lose every state and the Progressives win DC.
1976: Wallace could actually win this one. Sure, McCarthy wins more votes, but after Watergate people want someone as anti-establishment as Wallace. His populist speeches and not screwing up like Carter give him a slim win. However, he is defeated by EMK in the '80 primaries.

Wallace could actually win 72. He had the folksy charm and had already abandoned Segregationism. But probably would have had a better bet at the bottom of a Humphrey compromise ticket admittedly
 
Wallace could actually win 72. He had the folksy charm and had already abandoned Segregationism. But probably would have had a better bet at the bottom of a Humphrey compromise ticket admittedly
Yeah, but I still say a Prog ticket is formed unless McGovern/Church/Christom/??? is his VP
 
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