Wallace had a habit of moving around politically to wherever seemed advantageous to his own prospects. By 1972 - thinking he had a chance at the nomination - he had dropped the overtly racist pseudo far-right schtick of '68 in favour of a more generic backlash-to-everything message (which still included a strong element of dog-whistling, naturally), with the aim of reaching out to a wider audience. Then he got shot.
I wonder how he would have done against Nixon if he got the Democratic nomination in 1972?
