Will Kürlich Kerl
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Would they be able to win against Humphery? If so, what are the consequences?
Are you talking about a Rockefeller/Romney ticket, or just either man winning the nomination?
the ticket.
You're exaggerating. Without Nixon, Reagan certainly takes the nomination. Nixon won a narrower victory at the convention than Goldwater.It'd be too lopsided and alienate the Conservatives. Such was a problem in the OTL 1968 as it was: without Nixon, you had Rockefeller or Reagan, and the party threatened to tear itself apart with civil war because neither faction could stand one another and the house was divided.
You're exaggerating. Without Nixon, Reagan certainly takes the nomination. Nixon won a narrower victory at the convention than Goldwater.
It is rather difficult to give the nomination to Rockefeller absence the death of Nixon and Reagan, but polls at the time had Rockefeller by far the most popular choice of the American people (and LBJ too, come to that).
My high school teacher said that if George Romney won the Republican nomination, someone would have filed a lawsuit challenging his qualifications to be president. I think he was right. While politics was more polite in those days, there would have been a zealot. I think the Supreme Court takes the case right away and rules in late August that any child of a US Citizen is a natural born citizen and can serve as president. If the candidacy of Barack Obama is not butterflied away then birthers have a tough question to answer.
Romney was born to American parents. He was considered eligible in 1968, just like McCain was forty years later.Hate to burst your guy's bubble, but George Romney cannot be Vice-President. He was born in Mexico in a Mormon colony, and therefore ineligible to be Vice President, much less President should something happen to Rockefeller. Even though Wikipedia does say the matter could have been decided in favor of Romney, the fact is he was still born in Mexico, which could sour some folks to be elected.
But lets say that Romney was born in the US. I think the election of '68 would be tighter, as Humphrey wasn't exactly a great choice for the Democrats. The candidate that most likely would have won the nomination, Robert Kennedy, was gunned down in California, So Humphrey became candidate by proclamation to a degree. As VP to Johnson, it would be really hard to shake LBJ's stances, so he would have to go with the punches of supporting the Vietnam War. Does that mean he will loose? I don't know, but it will be a tight election, and dependent on the person who makes the fewer mistakes. The deck is stacked against both opponents, it depends on who's is slightly less worse.
Romney was born to American parents. He was considered eligible in 1968, just like McCain was forty years later.
Rockefeller or Romney at the top of the ticket gives Wallace a massive boost in the South, but they might do better in the Northeast as compensation. If they can't make up for the South, however, the election could end up going to the House.
Ahhh... I will admit that I'm not well versed in the American Constitution, but I thought "natural-born U.S. citizen" meant someone born in the US only. My bad.
They may have had the stomach for a conservative candidate. Nixon certainly thought so.