1960 United States Presidential Election

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Unpledged electors.

If I get to pick this, my unpledged electors will vote for the mildly-racist-but-still-better-than-what-would-happen-otherwise ticket of Gov. Happy Chandler (D-KY)/Gov. Elbert N. Carvel (D-DE).

[Donerail]

But certainly not this. I'll vote for DDE over Random Southern Democrat.

It's not Random Southern Democrat, it's Happy! At least I think it is.

[Donerail]

I don't want LBJ.

Goddamn DemoRATS, first you destroy my party and now this? I'm voting Ike to punish you.

I'm ugly.

Okay.

Now I won't vote for the Democrats ever again.

Happy?

I thought you said you were voting Ike, not Happy.

Anyways, folks, who do we want to nominate for the totally-not-racist Southern Democrats ticket? I fully support Chandler/Carvel, but there's also Sen. Absalom Willis Robertson (father of Pat Robertson), who we could run with Barry Goldwater for VP (bit of irony, given Goldwater's opinion of Absalom's son).

[Donerail]

Hey, I've got a cool idea: the vote is within one or two votes, MS, AL, and SC go to Unpledged Electors, and the election goes to the House. The Democrats reach a compromise with the Southerners to give Chandler the VP spot, and we get a Presidential administration of The Happy Warrior and Happy Chandler!

^^^Happy/Happy '60!

Except it's MS, AL, LA, MI (not sure why, got .02%), and a faithless guy in OK.

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HHH.  The Huohrey of 1960 was awesome.  The Humphrey that was Vice-President and the Presidential nominee in '68 was the dishonorable schmuck. 

Hence SJoyce's point about Humphrey's lack of principles.

He can't even be principled about whether or not he's principled.

[Donerail]

Unpledged electors got over 19 times what we got IRL. Victory!

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Are we sure Ike won the presidency?  Seems like the unpledged vote may have denied either candidate an electoral victory.

This is a good point.

Eisenhower/Chandler?

[Donerail]

If I can speak for the unpledged electors (or at least 20% of them), if we do hold the balance of power here, we should probably negotiate with one of the sides to swing our EVs to their Presidential candidate while electing someone else (preferably Happy Chandler) as VP. Because popular vote and democracy and such, Cath should probably make that someone Eisenhower.

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Why would Chandler win basically all the Wallace States with only half of Wallace's PV?

And a labor guy like Humphrey would never lose Michigan. You can flip MT, NM, and AK instead.

Because, for instance, in GA they were D electors who were released from their (IRL JFK) pledges, and Alabama had an extremely complex scenario. Michigan was the only place where unpledged was on the ballot that they didn't win here.