1968 if MLK wasn't assassinated and ran as an anti-war leftist third-party candidate

[Blow by blow, the passion dies]

He'd very likely carry zero states

[MATTROSE94]

Not much of a difference other than Georgia, Texas, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Washington flipping to Richard Nixon due to more vote splitting.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

MLK would have likely ran in 76 or 80 not 68 because 83 Harold Washington was elected Mayor

[Agonized-Statism]

Vice President Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) / Senator Edmund Muskie (D-ME)
Fmr. Vice President Richard Nixon (R-CA) / Governor Spiro Agnew (R-MD) ✓
Fmr. Governor George Wallace (AI-AL) / General Curtis LeMay (AI-CA)
Activist Martin Luther King (I-GA) / Senator Eugene McCarthy (I-MN)

He doesn't get very far with Humphrey taking labor, Nixon taking moderates, and reactionary white voters in Black Belt and Great Migration states taking to Wallace even more. A scenario where Robert Kennedy lives and endorses King- or Ted Kennedy does- might do something in Massachusetts, but I see them ultimately going where the party goes.

[Pres Mike]

Why on Earth would MLK do this? Humphrey was by far the most pro civil rights senator since 1948. He vouched for MLK on many occasions and spoke at his funeral.

MLK, who campaigned hard for LBJ in 1964, would campaign even harder for Humphrey to continue civil rights progress. Unlike LBJ, MLK and HHH shared similar views on Vietnam as well.

[NewYorkExpress]

MLK was more likely to be Humphrey's running mate if he wasn't assassinated than he was to run a third party campaign in 1968.