Long Live the King: An MLK Survives Collab TL

August 30, 1968 - The day after the end of the Democratic National Convention, Gallup releases polling showing a dead heat with Nixon and Kennedy. Wallace is projected to sweep the South and deadlock the election
How does this look as a prediction.
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Seems good
Although does the American Independence Party gain conservative members who are angry with Nixon's choice of John Volpe and Nelson Rockefeller?

It seems that George Wallace having a choice between Nixon, Kennedy, Volpe and Humphreys is going to be a toss up, as all four seem to be too liberal.
 
September 8th 1968 - After conversing with lead campaign staff and personally debating the issue, Nixon asks to meet with the Conservative leadership of the Republican Party to discuss possible cabinet choices or supreme court justices that will satisfy the wing of the party. He, however, is clear that his choice on Rockefeller and Volpe are final.
 
June 30, 1968 - In the first round of the French presidential election, Prime Minister Georges Pompidou and the Union of Democrats for the Republic and incumbent President Gatson Monnerville and the Radical Party finish in the top two. The runoff is scheduled in two weeks
 
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September 9, 1968 - Martin Luther King officially endorses RFK giving him a good portion of the minority vote

September 13, 1968 - Both Richard Nixon and Robert F. Kennedy start campaigning

September 20, 1968 - George Wallace starts campaigning
 
June 30, 1968 - In a shocking result, Jacques Duclos and French Communist Party narrowly outperforms President Monnerville and the Radical Party to make the second round against Prime Minister Georges Pompidou and the Union of Democrats for the Republic

Very unlikely for the reason i've already said. May 1968 played against the PCF and the death of De Gaulle isn't going to help the PCF . It's more likely that Monnerville and Pompidou goes both to the Second Round.
 
September 14th 1968
Robert F kennedy makes a speech condeming the counter culture as "a vapid spirtualess force which offers nothing to youth but escapeing from responsiblity into Drugs and other obscene addictions". this is seen as a play to gain gain the so called Silent majority of Voters.
 
September 20th 1968 - Nixon, like Kennedy, gives a speech in Indiana where he proclaims that the "Great Silent Majority must stand up and be counted!". Unlike Kennedy, Nixon chooses to instead call out directly to the Silent Majority, using the term heavily throughout his campaign from this point forward.
 
September 25, 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy campaigns in Kentucky while Nixon campaigns in California.

October 22, 1968 - Incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey calls for a bombing halt, and later on Johnson suspends the bombing help raising Kennedy’s numbers.


November 5, 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy beats Richard Nixon and George Wallace in the 1968 Presidential Election and celebrates with family and friends. Nixon calls and congratulates him.
 
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September 25, 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy campaigns in Kentucky while Nixon campaigns in California.

October 20, 1968 - RFK blasts Wallace for his bigotry, Wallace chooses Curtis LeMay as his Vice President candidate which causes him to drop 20%

October 22, 1968 - Incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey calls for a bombing halt, and later on Johnson suspends the bombing help raising Kennedy’s numbers.

October 30, 1968 - Nixon sabotages the Vietnam peace talks and this is used by the RFK campaign to ruin the Nixon campaign

November 5, 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy beats Richard Nixon and George Wallace in the 1968 Presidential
this is far too fast, don't you think.
 
September 15: Sweden initiates project Norrsken - an effort to produce nuclear weapons. The project leader is Allan Karlsson - a weird man who almost ended up getting kidnapped and put on a soviet submarine in Stockholm a few years earlier leading to a delay in the soviet nuclear weapons project.​
 
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September 25, 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy campaigns in Kentucky while Nixon campaigns in California.

October 20, 1968 - RFK blasts Wallace for his bigotry, Wallace chooses Curtis LeMay as his Vice President candidate which causes him to drop 20%

October 22, 1968 - Incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey calls for a bombing halt, and later on Johnson suspends the bombing help raising Kennedy’s numbers.


November 5, 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy beats Richard Nixon and George Wallace in the 1968 Presidential Election and celebrates with family and friends. Nixon calls and congratulates him.
Wallace already chose Ashbrook as his running mate
 
12 July 1968 : Acting President Gaston Monnerville is elected President of France beating George Pompidou in a upset election by 51.2 to 48.8. He is the first elected president of France from an oversea territory and the first from French Guyana. He is also the first Black President of France.
 
January 3, 1969 - As the 91st Congress is sworn in, southern representatives and senators, some of whom have already joined the AIP, break with party leadership to name their own candidate for Speaker and PPT, House Majority Whip Hale Boggs of Louisiana, and Senator Richard Russell Jr. of Georgia, deadlocking both elections
 
January 3, 1969 - As the 91st Congress is sworn in, southern representatives and senators, some of whom have already joined the AIP, break with party leadership to name their own candidate for Speaker and PPT, House Majority Whip Hale Boggs of Louisiana, and Senator Richard Russell Jr. of Georgia, deadlocking both elections
this is a bit ahead of schedule
 
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