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« on: January 17, 2022, 06:32:07 PM »
« edited: January 17, 2022, 06:44:08 PM by BigVic »

MLK survives his assassination attempt in 1968 and runs for President in 1972 againts incumbent Richard Nixon. How will he go?
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« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2022, 10:34:56 PM »

He gets destroyed, most of the country didn't like him. But he'll get historic numbers with black voters.
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« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2022, 10:58:20 PM »


President Richard Nixon (R-CA) / Vice President Spiro Agnew (R-MD) ✓
Activist Martin Luther King (D-GA) / Senator Walter Mondale (D-MN)
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« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2022, 11:10:52 PM »

He'd probably manage to be a better candidate than McGovern with a very memorable acceptance speech, but the platform would probably be about the same and so I imagine it's just another Nixon landslide with more racial polarization. The long-term impacts on racial politics and the direction of the Democratic party in such a scenario would be much more interesting than the result in 1972 itself.
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« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2022, 11:58:44 PM »

He'd probably manage to be a better candidate than McGovern with a very memorable acceptance speech, but the platform would probably be about the same and so I imagine it's just another Nixon landslide with more racial polarization. The long-term impacts on racial politics and the direction of the Democratic party in such a scenario would be much more interesting than the result in 1972 itself.
Positive consequences for Dems in my opinion. I'm not a huge fan of McGovern's effects, I think King takes the party in a somewhat different direction.
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« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2022, 09:14:19 PM »

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« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2022, 02:47:41 PM »

It would have been a total wipeout.



✓ President Richard M. Nixon (R-CA)/Vice President Spiro T. Agnew (R-MD): 535 EV. (63.74%)
Pastor Martin Luther King Jr. (D-GA)/Senator Walter F. Mondale (D-MN): 3 EV. (35.31%)
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