Donald Trump 2016 = Richard Nixon 1968?

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No.

Nixon campaigned on calming things down. Trump wants to stir things up. Law and order can never be high energy.

So what if history says so and repeats itself, and Trump wins a landslide against Hillary?

You think 1968 was a landslide?

If Trump wins, well at least it isn't Cruz lol. I can at least hope a Trump win will result in the end "small government" conservatism.

He was probably thinking of Nixon's monster 1972 landslide. His 1968 win was super close in the PV (43.4% - 42.7%, with Wallace's 13.5%)

You could argue that Wallace threw the election to Nixon by dragging quite a lot of votes away from Humphrey. For instance, in California, it was 47.82% - 44.74% Nixon, New York 47.08% - 44.15 Nixon, so it wouldn't have taken many Wallace votes to tip that to Democrats. I say all this because Nixon probably wouldn't have won that if it weren't for a 3rd party, and this time, if there is one, it'll be Republicans splitting their own votes and not the other way around.

Either way, I don't think it will be a good comparison if we're going by the winning margin. Hillary is probably going to decimate Trump, instead of a near PV tie. Trump, to a very limited degree, is closer to Wallace.