Humphrey 76

The two PODs are Humphrey runs in 1976 and we delay his cancer. I don't think he can beat Ford. HHH would not carry a single Southern State. Carter carried 10 of the former Confederate states. Ford also was showed strength around the country carrying his home state of Michigan with 21 electoral votes, Illinois with 26 and California with 45. If we increase the bitterness of the Reagan Ford contest and have Reagan win, then I think Humphrey could win. With moderate Republican stay at homes, Humphrey could win Maine. Massacdusettes, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin,Iowa, Minnesota, Washington, Oregon,Hawaii, Nevada. Nee Mexico and Missouri for 276 electoral votes. Once in office, he would use his honeymoon period to pass the Humphrey Hawkins public employment bill he sponsored while in the Senate. He then would spend the rest of 1977, working on a energy program that would be better than the OTL one. Solar energy and ethanol would now be standard. In 1978, I see him getting Congress to pass a health care program. I then would have him resign for health reasons in early 1979. The new president would have to deal with the hostage crisis, the tanking economy and lose to Reagan in 1980. Who would that new president be? I know that Humphrey talked to George McGovern about being his running mate in a potential 1976 run, but I think he would need a Southerner, I think it would been his worthy opponent from primaries Jimmy Carter. So ITTL we get Jimmy Carter the best of all the former presidents.


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Considering that he'd been running for president since 1960 (and vice-president since even earlier) I think that he'd be considered a washup in 76 and have trouble getting the nomination.
 
I think he gets the nomination. He was very popular in the Democratic Party but he would not win in a landslide. OTL 1976, was nowhere near a landslide.
 
HHH wins in 76. That was the Democrats year. Carter should have won a lot easier. But people started to study him a bit more and found out things i believe that helped lead to a Kenndy revolt in 79. HHH would win the northern states that Ford won in 76. HHH would have a lot more union support. HHH could win some southern states. Florida and Tennesee has not went over the edge yet to the right wing. Depends on who he picks to run with him. If he picks Carter he could win Georgia and North Carolina. If he picks McGovern like they talked he is a lot more solid in the mid west and mountain states. Texas is still a possibililty. Does this stop HHH if he lives or his running mate from beating Reagan in 80? If EMK does not run and cause the Democrats to fight it gives the democrats a good chance at winning. I don't think Kennedy runs against HHH or McGovern. If Carter is the VEEP and becomes President all bets are still off. Those two men just did not like one another.
 
Considering that he'd been running for president since 1960 (and vice-president since even earlier) I think that he'd be considered a washup in 76 and have trouble getting the nomination.

You overlook the fact that in 1960 he had not much money to run his campaign and he hardly became over saturated. In 64 he was running for VP and in 68 he went from being in a huge hole to coming in exceptionally close on election night and in 1972, he actually won the Democratic primary's popular vote over McGovern.

Many Democrats were pleading for Humphrey to run because no one knew Carter or Udall and no one liked George Wallace and Scoop Jackson was too hawkish. Ted Kennedy wasn't going to run. So, who's left? Humphrey. I believe he would've won and was certainly stronger than Ford.
 
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