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darklordoftech
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« on: August 27, 2019, 09:27:32 PM »
If the 1972 electorate got Thanos’d out of existence and the 2016 electorate appeared in its place, what would happen on election night 2016?
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« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2019, 09:45:36 PM »
McGovern does better, but with Nixon winning 68 percent of the white vote he still loses quite badly. I think McGovern narrowly carries California in this scenario.
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« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2019, 09:57:30 AM »
These days with L.B.J.'s and Nixon's baggage, I believe both Goldwater and McGovern would come very close to winning, if not winning altogether.
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« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2019, 04:24:52 PM »
Quote from: MIKESOWELL on August 27, 2019, 09:45:36 PM
McGovern does better, but with Nixon winning 68 percent of the white vote he still loses quite badly. I think McGovern narrowly carries California in this scenario.

McGovern would definitely carry California. I would assume that he wins Vermont, Maryland, Massachusetts (as in OTL), and Hawaii also, in addition to the District of Columbia.
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« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2019, 08:47:16 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2019, 09:19:34 PM »
This question makes no sense. If it's the 2016 electorate than it isn't 1972.
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« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2019, 03:39:58 PM »
The draft,Vietnam, and Nixon's lack of ethics would throw the electoral college to McGovern, even Karl Rove said McGovern would have beat McCain real easy in 2008.
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« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2019, 03:41:37 PM »
McGovern wins by about Carter's margin in 1976. Both popular vote and electoral college.
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« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2019, 09:58:35 PM »

I'd also give ME-01 to Nixon but you're spot on to what I would think otherwise.
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« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2019, 01:44:21 AM »
I think McGovern wins pretty handily, TBH.
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« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2019, 07:39:09 AM »
Thank you.
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« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2019, 11:02:13 AM »

Sen. George McGovern/Sen. Thomas Eagleton 359 electoral votes

Pres. Richard Nixon/ Vice Pres. Spiro Agnew 179 electoral votes
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« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2019, 11:05:34 AM »
This would be McGovern v.s. Nixon in modern America with 2016 demographics. No way in hell would Nixon get 37% of Democrats to vote for him today. This is also with 2016 electoral college vote counts too.
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« Reply #13 on: September 08, 2019, 12:44:05 PM »


All you have to do us flip the ticket and Shriver would have beaten Nixon

SGT Shriver///McGovern 279
Nixon/// Agnew 259
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« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2019, 12:43:12 AM »
Even though the question is silly a lot of you are pretty delusional, I think. Nixon was a much stronger candidate than Trump (assuming in whatever alternate universe this is the electorate doesn't know all the dirty laundry on the Nixon tapes) and McGovern was at least as bad of one as H. Clinton.
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« Reply #15 on: October 10, 2019, 10:10:48 PM »
Nixon wins 40 states, maybe 35
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