McCarthy/Lindsy 68

Under OTL conditions presumably? If so, all that does is drain votes from Democrats in safe states in the Northeast. Lindsay was a RINO even by 1960s standards. 1968 was the Year of the Blue-Collar (three candidates: RFK, Nixon, Wallace), just like 2004 was the Year of the Security Mom.
 
Lindsay was a Republican! And as Mayor of New York City he had very strong ties to the State Republican establishment of Nelson Rockefeller. He switched parties in 1971 but it would be inconceivable for him to do so a couple years earlier in such a crucial and important time as the 1968 election, taking into account Rockefeller's presidential candidacy and Lindsay's being shortlisted for Nixon's VP slot.
 
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