What if: George Wallace picks Col Harland Sanders as a running mate in 1968
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  What if: George Wallace picks Col Harland Sanders as a running mate in 1968
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« on: March 14, 2021, 04:41:58 PM »

Colonel Sanders was on Wallace's shortlist, and Curtis LeMay was a liability for Wallace because his loose talk about using nuclear weapons tended to scare people.

How about it? Does the Colonel have the 11 secret platforms and campaign issues to help Wallace force a No Electoral Majority scenario? Does KFC survive the inevitable boycott? Would Humphrey winning because the House picked him be a finger-lickin good result, or would the House not have the biscuits to overturn the likely-still popular vote winner Richard Nixon?
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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2021, 05:05:58 PM »

Wallace and the Colonel get finger licked; KFC is no more.
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« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2021, 07:43:58 PM »

While I can see why Sanders might make Wallace's list of possibilities, considering that the Colonel had never shown any significant interest in politics before then, I find it highly implausible that Harland would agree to be the running mate of such a divisive candidate. Moreover, the Colonel's personal life was such that I can't see him surviving any vetting process. (He divorced his first wife so that he could marry his longtime mistress.)
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