ADOF 1968 Scenario: Kennedy/Yarborough vs. Nixon/Agnew vs. Wallace/LeMay

[MRX]

Now, for an election scenario based on the alternate history novel: A Disturbance of Fate. If any of you haven't read it, I'll give u a brief overview. RFK doesn't killed on June 4, 1968 (Sirhan does, fortunately) and manages to get the Democratic nomination for President. His running mate is Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough. What would a realistic 1968 Election Map look like for these candidates? BTW, I'll be doing a map based on the results given in the book as soon as I can master the map making tool.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Why do both Wallace and Nixon have Agnew for VP? Did you mean to put LeMay?

[MRX]

Yeah I did. My bad. Fixed it immediately.

[hcallega]

RFK/Yarborough (D): 279 EVs
Nixon/Agnew (R): 214 EVs
Wallace/LeMay (AI): 45 EVs

[MRX]

I'll have a map like hcallega's posted soon. Still need help creating an election map.

[MRX]

Here's my election map for ADOF 1968:

Kennedy/Yarborough (D): 341 EVs
Nixon/Agnew (R): 152 EVs
Wallace/LeMay (AI): 45 EVs

[hcallega]

No way Tennssee goes to a Kennedy. Also I doubt that Vermont or Maine would. Those were both very WASPY and "conservative" in the traditional sense.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

No way Tennssee goes to a Kennedy. Also I doubt that Vermont or Maine would. Those were both very WASPY and "conservative" in the traditional sense.

Yeah. Funny thing with New England is back in the day, out of the three formerly solidly Republican state of New England (ME, NH, and VT), New Hampshire was actually the most likely of the three to go Democratic (1912, 1916, 1936, 1940, 1944) and now it's the most likely of the three to go Republican.

[Thomas D]

Kennedy-245
Nixon-240
Wallace-53

[MAINEiac4434]

No way Tennssee goes to a Kennedy. Also I doubt that Vermont or Maine would. Those were both very WASPY and "conservative" in the traditional sense.

Yeah. Funny thing with New England is back in the day, out of the three formerly solidly Republican state of New England (ME, NH, and VT), New Hampshire was actually the most likely of the three to go Democratic (1912, 1916, 1936, 1940, 1944) and now it's the most likely of the three to go Republican.

Yeah. Vermont is a Democratic solid now (at least in the presidency), pretty much on par with DC. Maine is a safe Dem state. New Hampshire is a swing state. Weird how things like that happen.

[MRX]

No way Tennssee goes to a Kennedy. Also I doubt that Vermont or Maine would. Those were both very WASPY and "conservative" in the traditional sense.

I know. These results are based on the author's predictions of how RFK would win the '68 Election. In addition to writing the book, he has written an essay on RFK winning the primaries, which is more realistic in discription than what the author states in the actual book. If anybody hasn't read the book yet, pick up a copy. Apart from some events and characteristics that are very ASB, it's a pretty good book.