different 1968

[GPORTER]

Bobby Kennedy wins the California primary and he leaves through the kitchen pantry. He is shot but, only in the hip, a bunch of other shots ring out and many of them miss the senator. Kennedy is admitted to the hospital, but survives the attempted assassaination.

Kennedy has a debate with Hubert Humphrey before the convention and he uses the Kennedy charm in the debate. Kennedy pulls out a squeaker of a victory on the first ballot at the DNC mostly thanks to party leaders. Kennedy accepts an anti war platform. Humphrey endorses Kennedy for President, as does McCarthy. Kennedy selects Daniel Moore of North Carolina as his running mate. The party is united behind Kennedy.

On the republican side, Nixon pulls a small victory on the first ballot at the RNC in Florida. Nixon selects asks his former rival, Nelson Rockefeller to be his running mate. To the surprise of the Nixon aides and Nixon himself, Rockefeller accepts the position. The party is united behind this ticket.

George Wallace decides not to seek the presidency and he endorses Kennedy.

The tickets are:

Robert Kennedy/Daniel Moore
vs.
Richard Nixon/Nelson Rockefeller


Discuss. Use maps, if you wish.

[Hash]

lol @ Wallace endorsing Kennedy.

[Hash]

The hilarity ensues.

[Robespierre's Jaw]

lol @ Wallace endorsing Kennedy.

before JFK was assassainated in 1963, Wallace said that he would not be a candidate for the presidency in 1964 because he did not disagree with what the Kennedys did not civil rights. That means that if he did not run, he would probably support Kennedy.

He said that about John F. Kennedy, not Robert F. Kennedy. Anywho, why would George Wallace drop out of the 1968 Election when he's been campaigning since late 1967 under the American Independent Party banner, only to endorse the non-law and order candidate Robert F. Kennedy?

[Kaine for Senate '18]

George Wallace was going to run in 1968 no matter what.

[Lincoln Republican]

A closer race between Nixon and Kennedy than Nixon and Humphrey, but Nixon still wins.

George Wallace endorsing a "pointy-headed intellectual", "social schemer", and "ultra-false liberal" from the northeast is not realistic, but even with Wallace's endorsement of the very liberal Kennedy, the south still goes mainly for the much more conservative and much more acceptable, to southern voters, Nixon.

The spoiled rich New York interloper from Massachusetts, who felt he was entitled to the Presidency, given a plum cabinet posting by big brother Jack, falls short of his all consuming and burning ambition to become President of the United States.

On the Vice Presidential side, high profile Governor Nelson Rockefeller, already with a prominent national presence, dwarfs the obscure North Carolina Governor Daniel Moore.       
 
Nixon/Rockefeller                    292
Kennedy/Moore                      246

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Kennedy/Moore: 46% PV, 277 EV
Nixon/Rockefeller: 40% PV, 197 EV
Unpledged: 14% PV, 64 EV