Congress was Democratic

at that time

Jesus look at what happened in real life

so if Nixon, Wallace, and McGovern did NOT get the majority...maybe they would have given it to...McGovern?

Probably not someone that radical

I can imagine them giving it to Hubert Humphrey or something or Ted Kennedy

well, they'd have to choose between the Top 3 Electoral College performers

"If no candidate receives a majority of Electoral votes, the House of Representatives elects the President from the 3 Presidential candidates who received the most Electoral votes. Each state delegation has one vote. The Senate would elect the Vice President from the 2 Vice Presidential candidates with the most Electoral votes. Each Senator would cast one vote for Vice President. If the House of Representatives fails to elect a President by Inauguration Day, the Vice-President Elect serves as acting President until the deadlock is resolved in the House."

ok, so I think the map would look like this

Wallace would have been a good candidate, if he could win, idk about that one

assuming that everything else about 1972 remained the same, with people generally satisfied with Nixon

I'll make a map of my own, with Wallace marked in yellow and McGovern marked in blue

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assuming Wallace does quite well, and splits the white working class vote with Nixon in some states, resulting in McGovern winning them

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1972#Close_states

I'm basing it off of the fact that the "close states" were these

Hi basing it off of the fact that the "close states" were these, I'm Dad!

I think you could see that effect play out in Oregon too

Minnesota, 5.51%
Rhode Island, 6.19%
South Dakota, 8.63%
Massachusetts, 8.97%
Wisconsin, 9.67%

I also think Wallace would win more states

more states where ?

well FL for one

the thing is, many Wallace fans might be fine with Nixon

that's the thing

hard to say because we don't know the circumstances and all

By the way, this map will be made to be a sort of "Wallace path to victory" one if possible

Basically to win, he'd have to take Dixie as well as the rust belt.

yeah, well a Watergate tier scandal would have to happen to Nixon earlier in that case

Well, let's say that Wallace runs a populist campaign and a committee uncovers links to the wiretap earlier, and Wallace uses it in a similar way Trump used the Hillary email scandal in 2016.

keep in mind that's the 2012/2016 map

not the 1972 map

Alright I'll redo it

https://www.270towin.com/1972_Election/interactive_map

use this

>CA at 45
>NY at 41

>TX only at 26 and FL only at 17

yeah

crazy times

funny how demographics change things isn't it

How's everyone

fine, right now I'm writing up a storm