US Presidential Election, 1964

Barry Goldwater manages to make a fairly strong showing in the primaries, but due to better funding and support, the nomination goes to Henry Cabot Lodge. Do the conservatives support Lodge? How does the campaign go, and what percentage of the AFrican American vote does Lodge receive over Johnson?
 
Henry Cabot Lodge would be a horrible candidate, and could never win the nomination. He lost a winnable reelection fight to JFK in '52 and is not really interested in domestic affairs. Only other candidate is Rocky, but he needs to win the CA primary and not divorce his wife and marry a divorcee in mid-campaign. Rocky might take Goldwater as Veep, but would still take no more than 10-12% of the AA vote, because of LBJ's Second Reconstruction. Johnson would still win a landslide with 56-58% PV.
 

Penelope

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1964 would still be a horrific landslide. There's no way your going to get a third President, let alone a republican, in office only 11 months after the Kennedy Assassination.
 
1964 would still be a horrific landslide. There's no way your going to get a third President, let alone a republican, in office only 11 months after the Kennedy Assassination.

Only if LBJ dies of a heart attack in October, 1964.
 
Here's a non-violent method: LBJ's resignation letter, intercepted by Bird IOTL, is leaked to the media. Then we see a two-way contest for the Democratic nomination. Whomever wins picks the other as their Veep. Either RED HOT LIBERAL (MN) or FERDIE'S DOUBLE* (NY), from a Southern perspective. I would not want to be a Dixiecrat in either situation...

*In 1966, a far-right book was published suggesting that the junior Senator from New York would impose Reconstruction-style Military Districts on the South to enforce desegregation. Marcos ruled PI by provincial military administration with himself as the civilian apex IOTL.
 
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