Atlas Throwback: 1965 edition

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I think George Romney

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I'm a fan of California Governor Ronald Reagan. He might have a chance against Johnson.

Are you predicting Reagan to win the California Governor race in 1966 then run and then win against LBJ in 1968 lol. He may win the governor race but he's even more right wing then Goldwater and we saw how that turned out.

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I'm a fan of California Governor Ronald Reagan. He might have a chance against Johnson.

Are you predicting Reagan to win the California Governor race in 1966 then run and then win against LBJ in 1968 lol. He may win the governor race but he's even more right wing then Goldwater and we saw how that turned out.

Of course Reagan will be elected Governor. Goldwater lost because Johnson gained sympathy votes from Kennedy's assassination. I bet he would've done a lot better if he was running against Kennedy instead.

OOC: My bad. I thought Reagan was already governor by this point.

Even then he will only have been governor for less then 2 years, and is to inexperienced to beat someone like LBJ. I think 1972(IF LBJ wins) or 1976(If the GOP wins) would be the better year for him to run

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After the Vietnam war wraps up in early 1967, LBJ could be looking at matching his showing from last year. He'll have destroyed poverty, racism, and the Viet Cong.

I dont think poverty and racism will go away but the war will have been won  which means LBJ will win in 1968

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Why would Kennedy run? I know that he and Johnson didn't get along when they were both part of his brother's administration, but the war seems to be going along fine. I don't like Johnson, but you can't hold the war against him.

If either LBJ doesn't run or gets bogged down if the war turns sour. He obviously wants to run and LBJ doesn't want to be a Kennedy "placeholder". I think that either we win the war within the next year and then there is an economic slump or we get bogged down by Southeast Asia, those are the only ways LBJ doesn't run. I think if there is enough support against the war in two years against the war within the party, Kennedy will run as liberal alternative, and he just might win.

America has never lost a war though

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Why would Kennedy run? I know that he and Johnson didn't get along when they were both part of his brother's administration, but the war seems to be going along fine. I don't like Johnson, but you can't hold the war against him.

If either LBJ doesn't run or gets bogged down if the war turns sour. He obviously wants to run and LBJ doesn't want to be a Kennedy "placeholder". I think that either we win the war within the next year and then there is an economic slump or we get bogged down by Southeast Asia, those are the only ways LBJ doesn't run. I think if there is enough support against the war in two years against the war within the party, Kennedy will run as liberal alternative, and he just might win.

America has never lost a war though

I didn't say we'd lose it. North Vietnam is a weak country by itself but with the help of the Ruskies and China we could be stalemated there.

Maybe China but I dont think Russia would risk WW3 over this