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To: Wallace T.

George Wallace announced his candidacy for the Democrat nomination a week before the Kennedy assassination.
A Wallace-Kennedy fight would have given Nelson Rockefeller the presidency. Wallace probably would have beaten Kennedy. Wallace, a folk hero, would have beaten the oily Johnson too.
If Johnson ever was to be president, Nov. 22, 1963 was the day.


37 posted on 04/02/2018 4:58:57 PM PDT by namvolunteer (Obama says the US is subservient to the UN and the Constitution does not apply. That is treason.9we)
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To: namvolunteer
Wallace did well in three 1964 Democrat Presidential primaries outside the Deep South in Wisconsin, Indiana, and Maryland. However, he backed off from pursuing an independent candidacy because Barry Goldwater, whose opposition to integration was on libertarian and originalist grounds rather than segregationist ones, was the probable Republican candidate. Wallace did well in white Catholic areas like Milwaukee and Baltimore, as well as Anglo-Protestant areas like rural Maryland and southern Indiana.

In some respects, Wallace was a precursor of Donald Trump, whose campaign featured culturally conservative themes (law and order for Wallace; immigration control for Trump) while not emphasizing the anti-big government themes as Goldwater and Reagan did. Like Wallace, he did well in those Northeastern and Midwestern areas not dominated by racial minorities, Jews, or upper-income whites. Trump carried Staten Island and southern Brooklyn in New York City, areas still largely Italian-American, and most of Pennsylvania outside of the two big cities, whether white Catholic, German Protestant, or Scots-Irish. He did suffer some runoff in the libertarian wing, Ron and Rand Paul supporters, and with the country club crowd, Bushies, but not enough to lose the election.

53 posted on 04/03/2018 6:46:40 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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