althmanne
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« on: November 22, 2010, 01:22:49 AM » |
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I really don't see him winning outside of a brokered House election (seeing him as a compromise candidate is EXTREMELY difficult, naturally). The conservative movement, especially considering the segregationist/antisegregationist split in its loyalties, could not possibly have solidified behind Wallace's campaign to allow him to win over vote-splitting liberals.
Perhaps if he had chosen a less "scary" Vice Presidential candidate, e.g. Reagan, if the Romney/Reagan nomination battle had become acrimonious enough (and Nixon had decided against running) and adopted a more mainstream paleoconservative platform (referencing segregation mainly in coded references), he might have pulled out the Mountain West, the South, parts of the Rust Belt, and New Hampshire (a possible outpost in New England).
That, of course, relies on a bitter vote split between Romney/Rockefeller and McCarthy/McGovern, which would probably not materialize (if Wallace became enough of a threat, one candidate would probably emerge as the main alternative, unless Wallace's surge came very late).
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