Alternative 1964: Johnson (D) vs Rockefeller (R)

[JA]

Also, what do you think would have been the most likely outcome of this election? Feel free to discuss with maps or other predictions.

[Kingpoleon]

Anybody who would support a racist Lyndon Johnson who "supported" civil rights while also being a fool on the economy, other social issues, and indisputably foreign policy, must be some sort of nationalist, hawkish populist. Particularly when the other option was a foreign policy realist, whose chief criticism was his overbearing stance on law and order over civil rights/privacy rights.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Abstain/Other.

[AppleJackass]

Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (R)

[Mr. Smith]

LBJ easily.

[LLR]

LBJ, no doubt about it.

[TheSaint250]

Rockefeller.

[Mr. Reactionary]

Abstain/Other.

[Goldwater]

Abstain/Other.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Anybody who would support a racist Lyndon Johnson who "supported" civil rights while also being a fool on the economy, other social issues, and indisputably foreign policy, must be some sort of nationalist, hawkish populist. Particularly when the other option was a foreign policy realist, whose chief criticism was his overbearing stance on law and order over civil rights/privacy rights.

someone in 64 would be unlikely to think of Rocky as the less hawkish candidate than LBJ, though they may have thought of him as smarter on it.   

on domestic policy I'd prefer Rocky as being not quite so enthusiastic in utopian promises to be achieved through the expansion of the federal government.    but then on that other meaning of domestic - that is, on family issues and wondering what his election might mean for the normalization of divorce - that makes him a bit more difficult to support.

[RINO Tom]

Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (R)

[President Johnson]

I love them both, but in that one I would vote for LBJ.

[Illiniwek]

I would vote for LBJ, but if they had a rematch in 1968, I might switch over to Rockefeller.

[TDAS04]

Johnson