What if George Wallace on a Wallace-Chandler ticket had won in 1968?
I'm thinking the Republicans nominate Romney, the Democrats give it to Johnson at convention, and Eugene McCarthy runs third-party.
With three candidates splitting the liberal vote, Wallace eeks out a win by consolidating the south and getting some midwest hardhat voters. A Mid-September AFL-CIO poll had 1 in 3 union voters backing Wallace, and the Chicago Sun-Times found that 44% of White Steelworkers in Chicago supported him. Wallace's Madison Square Garden rally was the biggest since FDR's.
Reading up on, it's pretty unnerving to see how much northern support there was for Wallace in 1968. What if he'd fluked his way into the Presidency in 1968?
I'm thinking the Republicans nominate Romney, the Democrats give it to Johnson at convention, and Eugene McCarthy runs third-party.
With three candidates splitting the liberal vote, Wallace eeks out a win by consolidating the south and getting some midwest hardhat voters. A Mid-September AFL-CIO poll had 1 in 3 union voters backing Wallace, and the Chicago Sun-Times found that 44% of White Steelworkers in Chicago supported him. Wallace's Madison Square Garden rally was the biggest since FDR's.
Reading up on, it's pretty unnerving to see how much northern support there was for Wallace in 1968. What if he'd fluked his way into the Presidency in 1968?