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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