Not Illegitimate, Criminal. Stop The Counting! Stop The Counting!
LBJ can probably twist enough arms to give Humphrey the White House, but in addition to all the OTL '68 problems, he'll have the problem Bush had in 2000- being perceived as somehow illegitimate.
Somehow illegitimate? The man was elected on the grounds of Sandra Day O'Connor's sick husband, Rehnquist's bad back, and their ruthless determination to be replaced by Republicans, even if it meant using the US Constitution as toilet paper. The US Constitution gives no role for the Federal Judiciary to determine Presidential Elections, on the obvious grounds that it allows said Federal judges, at all levels, to influence their replacements. Bush wanted the White House in the worst way possible, and so he got it in the worst way possible. And ruled as President, in the worst way possible. I do not excuse Gore from this, but his only sin in this was only asking the 4 democratic districts to recount, not the other 27. Though the 27 Republican county supervisors swore to a (wo)man they would not allow their ballot boxes to be opened, and of course Florida Secretary of State (And future US Congresswoman


) Kathy Harris refused to do her duty by ordering a full statewide recount. Gore should have resigned rather than participate in the farce of the Electoral College that he had to preside over as President of the Senate. Sometimes, when wickedness stands triumphant, you just have to walk away.
P.S. When a legally forced recount was done 4 months after Dubya was sworn in, the result was: Gore wins Florida by three votes. The butterfly ballots alone would have pushed his majority into the thousands.
