1960: Goodwin Knight vs. Lyndon Johnson

[President Johnson]

California Governor Goodwin Knight stays in the 1958 gubernatorial contest and turns down Senator William Knowland's proposal to switch offices. While Knowlands loses his seat in 1958, Knight wins an upset in California and two years later beats Richard Nixon for the Republican nomination with Ike's help. At the DNC, LBJ's political machine sucessfully takes away the nomination from JFK and offers him the vice presidency. On November 8, Knight faces Johnson. Who wins with what map?

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

LBJ wins narrowly, Texas is probably the state that decides the election for him.

[Kingpoleon]

282: Goodwin Knight/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. - 50.7%
255: Lyndon B. Johnson/Joe Clark - 45.3%
Others - 4.0%

[Mr. Smith]

357: L. Johnson/Humphrey, 54% pv
Knight/P. Bush: 180 EV, 45% pv

Sorry, but there's no way a Mormon's winning this one, especially not with someone as shrewd as LBJ. The dog-whistling towards both social liberals, minorities, AND Dixiecrats writes itself on that one. Only reason it's even this close is because LBJ is from The South, but that's why Humphrey gets tapped.

...yeah, I just couldn't make it past a week off...old habits...

[Sir Mohamed]

Johnson wins a combination of the South and the North East plus Minnesota. Unlike '64 IRL, his southern support is much stronger as he had not been assosicated with the desegregation issue.

✓ Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX)/Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA): 332 EVs.; 50.7%
Governor Goodwin Knight (R-CA)/Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA): 205 EVs.; 48.1%

[Lechasseur]

Johnson wins a combination of the South and the North East plus Minnesota. Unlike '64 IRL, his southern support is much stronger as he had not been assosicated with the desegregation issue.

✓ Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX)/Senator John F. Kennedy (D-MA): 332 EVs.; 50.7%
Governor Goodwin Knight (R-CA)/Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge (R-MA): 205 EVs.; 48.1%

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