It would have been the best thing for America. Teddy Kennedy could have won in a landslide in 1980, 84 and possibly Cuomo in 88. Very likely twenty years of Dem rule would follow.
Whoa! Sixteen at best for the Democrats. While Democrats might like to relegate Ford to Hoover like status, I doubt it'd be actually like that. I say the Dems get the twelve years that the Republicans got in OTL. I'm just wondering who could be their savior. Ted Kennedy is the usual choice. Others could be Henry M Jackson and Jerry Brown.