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Presidential Elections - Analysis and Discussion => Past Election What-ifs (US) => Topic started by: FEMA Camp Administrator on August 11, 2012, 12:07:04 PM



Title: 1968: Pigasus (Y-IL) vs. George Wallace (AI-AL)
Post by: FEMA Camp Administrator on August 11, 2012, 12:07:04 PM
The old parties melt away as now the country polarizes between the ultra-Right and the ultra-Left in one epic election. Representing the right is former Alabama Governor George Wallace on the American Independence ticket. He is endorsed by figures such as Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. On the Left is Pigasus, nominee of the Yippie party and endorsed by folks such as Eugene McCarthy, the traditional Yippie crowd, and others.

Discuss with maps.


Title: Re: 1968: Pigasus (Y-IL) vs. George Wallace (AI-AL)
Post by: Rhodie on August 11, 2012, 12:36:37 PM
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Wallace may have been a segregationist, but in 1968, only about 25% of the electorate would have backed Pigasus, so Wallace blow-out.


Title: Re: 1968: Pigasus (Y-IL) vs. George Wallace (AI-AL)
Post by: Snowstalker Mk. II on August 11, 2012, 04:32:53 PM
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Title: Re: 1968: Pigasus (Y-IL) vs. George Wallace (AI-AL)
Post by: ask_not on August 12, 2012, 04:54:23 PM
were this to happen and i was alive then i would vote for eugene mcarthy.


Title: Re: 1968: Pigasus (Y-IL) vs. George Wallace (AI-AL)
Post by: 🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸 on August 15, 2012, 03:17:53 PM
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Title: Re: 1968: Pigasus (Y-IL) vs. George Wallace (AI-AL)
Post by: Oldiesfreak1854 on August 24, 2012, 12:40:08 PM
The old parties melt away as now the country polarizes between the ultra-Right and the ultra-Left in one epic election. Representing the right is former Alabama Governor George Wallace on the American Independence ticket. He is endorsed by figures such as Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. On the Left is Pigasus, nominee of the Yippie party and endorsed by folks such as Eugene McCarthy, the traditional Yippie crowd, and others.

Discuss with maps.
Nixon would have never endorsed a segregationist like Wallace, and Reagan probably wouldn't have either.


Title: Re: 1968: Pigasus (Y-IL) vs. George Wallace (AI-AL)
Post by: FEMA Camp Administrator on August 25, 2012, 01:56:49 PM
The old parties melt away as now the country polarizes between the ultra-Right and the ultra-Left in one epic election. Representing the right is former Alabama Governor George Wallace on the American Independence ticket. He is endorsed by figures such as Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. On the Left is Pigasus, nominee of the Yippie party and endorsed by folks such as Eugene McCarthy, the traditional Yippie crowd, and others.

Discuss with maps.
Nixon would have never endorsed a segregationist like Wallace, and Reagan probably wouldn't have either.

You think they're politically closer to not just a pig, but a YIPpie Pig?


Title: Re: 1968: Pigasus (Y-IL) vs. George Wallace (AI-AL)
Post by: FEMA Camp Administrator on August 25, 2012, 01:58:01 PM
Also, c'mon. If we're going on the idea that friggin' Pigasus is the only candidate the Left has, you're gonna have to suspend dis-belief here.


Title: Re: 1968: Pigasus (Y-IL) vs. George Wallace (AI-AL)
Post by: Oldiesfreak1854 on October 09, 2012, 06:00:16 PM
I have NO idea what I would do here.  If anybody, probably Pigasus, but a write-in would be my first choice.