1968: Morse vs Thurmond

[Dallasfan65]

Wayne Morse (D-OR)/Quentin Burdick (DNPL-ND)

vs

Strom Thurmond (R-SC)/Ronald Reagan (R-CA)

[CathKhan]

Something like this maybe?

Morse: 279
Thurmond: 259

[Jerseyrules]

Something like this maybe?

Morse: 279
Thurmond: 259

Thurmond would win WV, ND, and probably Iowa and Michigan with the blue collar workers

[Vermin Supreme]

Something like this maybe?

Morse: 279
Thurmond: 259

Thurmond would win WV, ND, and probably Iowa and Michigan with the blue collar workers

Burdick would help Morse win all those states.

[Jerseyrules]

Something like this maybe?

Morse: 279
Thurmond: 259

Thurmond would win WV, ND, and probably Iowa and Michigan with the blue collar workers

Burdick would help Morse win all those states.

I don't know...I forgot Burdick was from ND, but WV, etc.; other than their home state, running mates don't tend to pull much in geographically save for a vastly ideologically and geographically different pair (ex. Helms and Ferraro or Wallace and Muskie, etc.); example being that in 92 Clinton probably could've won most of the southern states without Gore's help.  Don't over-estimate the power of a running mate.

[shua]

I'm guessing something close to cathcon.  I don't see Thurmond having much appeal in the Upper Midwest

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