Also-Ran vs Running Mate, 1980: Anderson vs Lucey

[Mr. Smith]

Which one?

Past Results

Wendell Willkie vs Charles McNary: Willkie 66.6%
Tom Dewey vs John Bricker: Dewey 65%
Tom Dewey vs Earl Warren: Warren 54.5%
Adlai Stevenson vs John Sparkman: Stevenson 93.3%
Adlai Stevenson vs Estes Kefauver: Kefauver 73.1%
Richard Nixon vs Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.: Lodge 52.2%
Barry Goldwater vs William Miller: Goldwater 72.2%
Hubert Humphrey vs Edmund Muskie: Muskie 52.4%
George Wallace vs Curtis LeMay: Wallace 70.8%
George McGovern vs Thomas Eagleton vs Sargent Shriver: McGovern/Shriver 70%, 1st Round -> McGovern 52%, Run-off

Gerald Ford vs Bob Dole: Ford 81.8%

[Mr. Smith]

2 hours left

[Indy Texas]

Sounds like an alternative reality where the US developed into a European-style social democracy, with Lucey being the "Labor" candidate and Anderson being the "Liberal/Christian Democratic" candidate.

[Mr. Smith]

Yeah, this one ain't gonna gain traction anytime soon.

Anderson wins.

Onto 1984.