WI: Anyone but Lodge, Jr. in '60

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr was picked for various reasons that looked good on paper but didn't work as well in reality. One of those reasons being it was thought he'd make Kennedy compete for Massachussetts, which Kennedy ended up winning handily. Lodge also made a gaffe of promising that a Nixon administration would appoint a Black man to the cabinet, which Black voters felt was shallow pandering and which Southern Whites were repulsed by. And Lodge was a lazy campaigner.

Who else besides Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr could Richard Nixon have picked for his running mate, and what effect would they have had on the campaign and the election? This is simply a matter of other possibilities: it's not about making a better running mate or a worse running mate, though the alternate possibilities could be better, worse, or the same as what Lodge was.
 
If he wanted to make a concerted push for the South, perhaps he could have picked Barry Goldwater?
 
Morton, Judd, Scott, Keating are all alternate possibilities. Scott and Keating could help in their respective states and keep the Catholic margin down, though possibly also repulsing some Protestants or keeping them home if each ticket has a Catholic on it. Morton's a moderate Southerner, first Southerner on a GOP ticket in eons. Judd might help keep conservatives in line.
 
Prescott Bush? I vaguely remember reading something that he was Eisenhower's top pick for a successor or something.
 
He was Senate Minority Leader. Would he give that up for the vice presidency, or the prospect of being one?

Barkley did to become Truman's Veep, and Dirksen was elected in 1950, so he would be re-elected in 1956, and 1962: no danger of losing his spot as Senator.
 
Perhaps former MD governor Theodore McKeldin: that provides a man from a border state with a significant Catholic popultion plus solid executive credentials.
 
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