Unusual Presidential Elections

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well I suppose "little things" like that do help...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Wallace certainly cost Humphrey the election and North Vietnam was on the verge of collapse by 1968(a little known fact).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

In 1964 the Deep South went very strongly for Goldwater and in 1968 went very strongly for Wallace.

The biggest shift in the Deep South was from Republican to Wallace.

However this was reversed in the Upper South where there was a big shift from Democrat to Wallace(Tennessee is the best example).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

It has to be remembered that Wallace was a populist and was able to get people with very different attitudes to vote for him(especially in 1982 after he admitted he had been "wrong about race" when both the Bubbas and the Blacks voted for him), and he was able to tap into a lot of anger in some areas.

It's also false to say that people that voted for Wallace voted GOP afterwards, in the Upper South where Wallace polled best is where the Dems poll best nowadays.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

How about East St Louis?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I'm well aware about East St Louis... problems. That's why I said it.

So it is true: you Americans don't have a sence of irony

[Filuwaúrdjan]

...And the RNC could go to that sh**t hole in Kansas where people are arrested for NOT having a gun...