Johnson vs. Reagan vs. Wallace vs. McCarthy vs. Rockefeller 1968
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Lahbas
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« on: July 20, 2009, 02:56:53 PM »
« edited: July 21, 2009, 01:15:25 PM by Lahbas »

How would the map look like?

Lyndon Johnson/Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
Ronald Reagan/Jesse Helms (Republican)
George Wallace/Happy Chandler (American Independent)
Eugene McCarthy/Don Edwards (Peace Democrat)
Nelson Rockefeller/William Scranton (Liberal Republican)
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« Reply #1 on: July 20, 2009, 09:10:08 PM »

What year is this?
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« Reply #2 on: July 20, 2009, 10:13:47 PM »

Then Helms, cant be Ronnie's Running mate, Helms was elected senator in 72'.



Big Reagan Win, the liberal vote is split three ways, Wallace gets the South, and Reagan gets everything else.
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« Reply #3 on: July 20, 2009, 11:38:18 PM »

Johnson was greatly discredited by 1968 and drags the Democratic Party down with him.

Rockefeller and Reagan had made a deal before the election that whichever one of them finished with more electoral votes would get the support of the other one.

After the election, Reagan made it known that he was supporting Rockefeller for President, and that the House should confirm his election.

Enough Democrats from the north, midwest, and west defected and cast their votes with the Republicans in the state delegations to give the House state delegation vote to Rockefeller, confirming him as the nation's 37th President.

These Democrats could not justify confirming Johnson, with only 86 electoral votes, compared to Rockefeller's 200.

Reagan becomes Secretary of State, and some of these Democrats from the House receive plum federal appointments.

Was a deal struck with these dissenting Democrats before the House vote?  We'll never know. 

Rockefeller/Scranton                     208
Reagan/Helms                              196
Johnson/Humphrey                         86
Wallace/Chandler                           45
McCarthy/Edwards                           3

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« Reply #4 on: July 21, 2009, 12:57:33 PM »

Sorry, should have mentioned it was '68. Also messed up on Helm's. I have to agree with Dewey's map. I find it unlikey that any of the canidates wuld have obtained an electoral majority, and the canidates themselves probably knew that.
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