1968: Nixon picks Fong instead of Agnew

[TDAS04]

Richard Nixon selects Senator Hiram Fong of Hawaii as his running mate.  The Humphrey/Muskie and Wallace/LeMay tickets occur as IRL.

How would this election have turned out?

[King]

No effect whatsoever but since he wasn't corrupt like Agnew he would've ended up President in 1974.

[TDAS04]

No effect whatsoever but since he wasn't corrupt like Agnew he would've ended up President in 1974.

This is 1968, and Fong was of Chinese origin.  I think there would have been an opening for Wallace.

[badgate]

No effect whatsoever but since he wasn't corrupt like Agnew he would've ended up President in 1974.

Ooh, that's more interesting though: Carter vs. Fong in '76.

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I think it would hurt Nixon and help Wallace. Not sure how much.
If Nixon failed to get a majority of the electoral votes, he'd probably also lose the popular vote, and so the 26 state delegations with a Democratic majority elected for the next Congress would choose Humphrey.

[King]

No effect whatsoever but since he wasn't corrupt like Agnew he would've ended up President in 1974.

Ooh, that's more interesting though: Carter vs. Fong in '76.

Fong probably wouldn't have been able to beat Reagan in the 76 primaries. Ford barely did.

[TDAS04]

Humphrey/Muskie:  225
Nixon/Fong:  222
Wallace/LeMay:  91

No candidate obtains an EV majority. 

[Jerseyrules]

It'd probably hurt Nixon, siphoning off his support in the Deep South, which would coalesce around Wallace.  It might help a bit in the Northeast, but not by much; though he was supported by many in the Rockefeller wing of the party, Fong wasn't well-known on the national stage.  Recorded video is hard to come by, but he's definitely not going to have the impact the border-state firebrand Agnew did.  Before the tax evasion scandals came out, many viewed him as next-in-line to Nixon, and like Connelly was supported by both the conservative wing of the party while the Rockefeller wing still would have held their nose for him.

Nixon: 287
Humphrey: 174
Wallace: 77