Humphrey wins in 1968.

But busing is different. It will affect large numbers of people directly.

Just think about that Detriot busing order. All those suburban parents who are going to have to see their children spend an extra three hours a day on a bus, to go to a less well funded, more dangerous school. (And for that matter inner city parents also aren't happy about having their kids have to spend all those extra hours on a bus.) All of those parents are going to be very angry. And that anger is going to be reborn every single school day. The busing issue has a power that most social issues don't have because its a direct attack on people's children. There's a reason that 85% of the people were opposed to busing.

Another thought: with two successive Democratic administration carrying out the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Warren Court doesn't *need* to be as activist as in OTL.
 
In 1972 the Democrats would have been in power for 32 of the last 40 years. That alone would be a heavy drag on HHH's chances. I could imagine the GOP warning people of the US becoming a one-party state. It'd be hyperbole of course, but the GOP would do anything to get back into the White House. And then there's Vietnam and the stuff people have already mentioned here.

I think you're way overselling "fear of one-party rule" as a viable campaign issue. For example: in OTL, by 1992 the Republicans had been in power almost continuously since 1968 -- that's 20 of the last 24 years -- and this wasn't a campaign issue at all.
 
I think you're way overselling "fear of one-party rule" as a viable campaign issue. For example: in OTL, by 1992 the Republicans had been in power almost continuously since 1968 -- that's 20 of the last 24 years -- and this wasn't a campaign issue at all.

Agreed. After all, most of the voters in 1992 voted for Bush, Reagan, and many voted for Nixon. The inability to get more than four terms of one-party rule usually stems from an economic downturn or foreign entanglement (or both) during that time period. It's a correlation, not causation.
 
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