1968: Robert F. Kennedy v. George Romney v. George Wallace if JFK Lives.

[hawkeye59]

271-190-77 RFK

[Thomas D]

273-181-84 Romney

I'm guessing in your scenario JFK wins in 1964. I don't think Americans would want to elect brothers back to back. RFK should wait for '72 or '76

[hawkeye59]

There's no way Romney, who was pro-civil rights, would win SC, NC, or TN.

[hcallega]

Bobby wouldn't have ran. Considering that he was very reluctant in 1968 in OTL, I think the Kennedy clan leadership would tell him to wait until the '70s when he would have more experience under his belt.

[Lincoln Republican]

Romney                                    331
Kennedy (Upstart Carpet Bagger) 141
Wallace                                     66

[glm15jul]

This is interesting.  It would not be likely for RFK to run for president if his brother, President John F. Kennedy, in 1968, was concluding his second term in office.  Robert Kennedy, if everything stayed the way things were prior to November 22, 1963, would still be the Attorney General, arresting and convicting the Mafia.  J. Edgar Hoover would still be the Director of the FBI, because the Kennedy brothers could not force him to retire as of January 1, 1965, the day of Hoover's 70th birthday.  Hoover had so much dirt on President Kennedy and his father, that blackmail would have kept Hoover in his post.  There was talk that Robert Kennedy would run for Governor of Massachusetts in 1962. But that was discussed during the election campaign of 1960.  The father wanted Bobby to be close to Jack in the White House, knowing Jack had someone who he could trust. Being Attorney General, Bobby was the second most powerful man in the White House.  (Everything we know about Robert Kennedy, after the assassination of his brother, shows he ran for and won the U.S.  Senate seat in New York, in 1964, and was a presidential candidate in 1968.)  This would not be if President Kennedy had lived.  In a nutshell, Bobby was Jack's "right hand man".  And he could not have been happier.