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1924:
LaFollete 296
Davis 136
Harding 99
The teapot dome scandal causes the still living Harding to lose in a landslide.
Awesome.
That man would have made a great President.
Your wish is my command
1924:
LaFollete 296
Davis 136
Harding 99
The teapot dome scandal causes the still living Harding to lose in a landslide.
The Dark Days Ahead - Timeline I never got to.
Governor George Wallace (D-AL) / John Wayne (R-CA) - 270 Electoral *
Governor Nelson Rockefeller (R-NY) / Governor Daniel J. Evans (R-WA) - 247 Electoral *
Vice President Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) / Senator George McGovern (D-SD) - 21 Electoral
* A Faithless Republican Elector in Missouri would cast his vote for Wallace/Wayne
Kind of like a repeat of the 1860 election only this time the Democrat wins.
LBJ pulls all stops for Rockefeller once McCarthy gains the nomination, which is why the Democrats fair so poorly. The butterflies originate in the 1964 Election where Lurleen Wallace had the cancer removed (though it comes back during Wallace's Presidency), Marv Griffin is still Governor of Georgia, Wallace does better in the primaries, and openly aids Goldwater during the election. I'll post the results of 1964 in a second.
The Dark Days Ahead - Timeline I never got to. (1964 Presidential)
President Lyndon Johnson (D-TX) / Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-MN) - 435 Electoral
Senator Barry Goldwater (R-AZ) / Representative William Miller (R-NY) - 103 Electoral
See my earlier map for a bit more accurate representation of how a "more successful" Goldwater in 1964 would do. Indiana, even though to this day it's a GOP stronghold, wasn't really anywhere near close in that election. The close states were mostly out west, with Idaho, Utah, Nebraska, and Kansas being in marginal spitting distance of the Goldwater campaign.
Also, while several other Southern states could possibly be taken by Barry (Virginia and Florida in particular were close-ish), Tennessee wouldn't be one of them. I know it's strange, because out of all of Dixie, Tennessee had one of the strongest Republican undercurrents, particularly in the Eastern half of the state. However, Goldwater blew his chance of winning there by telling a crowd of TVA authorities that, as president, he'd privatize the institution, which did _not_ go over well. (Still, I suppose that little meeting could have been butterflied...)
All in all, though, an interesting scenario I'd like to see more of.
Similar concept to the last map- Walter Mondale in 1984 doesn't do quite so badly. Again, this is shifting all the states the former Vice President lost by less than 10 points. Still not the brightest chapter in the history of the Democrat Party, but a far cry from the utter embarrassment his historical performance was.
Considering the tripling of the debt and the scandals of Reagan's presidency, I don't think the embarassment was his as much as ours. Consider his point that we would have to cut spending and or raise taxes to lower the debt..while Reagan promised to "outgrow the debt"...candy rather than vegetables..gee, which did the Americans vote for?
Nothing fancy- just decided to do a map where Barry Goldwater does a little better in his 1964 bid. He doesn't win, but he wins all states that he lost where he lost by a margin of less than 10%. The reason? I dunno. Perhaps he has a better running mate (Margaret Chase Smith?), or perhaps Johnson's campaign isn't quite so brutal.
Goldwater ends up with 98 electoral votes.
Similar concept to the last map- Walter Mondale in 1984 doesn't do quite so badly. Again, this is shifting all the states the former Vice President lost by less than 10 points. Still not the brightest chapter in the history of the Democrat Party, but a far cry from the utter embarrassment his historical performance was.