[mkjessup]

Actually, that’s right. George Wallace ran for President in 1968 for the American Independent Party, retired General Curtis LeMay WAS his running mate, and they carried enough of the South to deny Hubert Humphrey an electoral win against the GOP ticket of Nixon/Agnew.

If Wallace had NOT been shot, he would very likely have been the nominee for the Democrat Party in ‘72 and he certainly would have fared better with the voting public than that traitor-Commie George McGovern.

No telling who Wallace’s running mate in ‘72 might have been, if he had become the nominee.

[Graybeard58]

Actually, that’s right.

I remember. I corrected myself 2 or 3 times. Off my meds, you know.

At age 23 that was the first time I was eligible to vote in a presidential election. I voted for Nixon and have voted "R" ever since.

[Wallace T.]

If Wallace had won the Democrat nomination in 1972, it would have been as ground shifting as when William Jennings Bryan won it in 1896. In 1896 and 1900, Northeastern and Great Lakes Democrats deserted their party in great numbers, with William McKinley making considerable gains among normally Democrat leaning immigrants, whose factory and mine employment was dependent upon maintenance of high tariff barriers. Bryan, who represented the agrarian interests of the South and West, favored lower tariffs. Big city Democratic political machines such as New York's Tammany Hall were at best lukewarm to Bryan. Democrats of the Grover Cleveland type, who favored a gold standard and limited government, deserted their party for the more conservative McKinley. As a result, McKinley beat Bryant twice.

As for 1972, Wallace would have been regarded with hostility by the Democrat big city political machines and the labor unions. Black, Jewish, and Hispanic voters would have deserted their party’s standard bearer in unprecedented numbers. There may well have developed a third party on the Left, given an unpalatable (to them) choice between Nixon and Wallace. Such a third party could well have carried New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and a few other states, and perhaps thrown the election into the House of Representatives.

[Alter Kaker]

If Wallace had NOT been shot, he would very likely have been the nominee for the Democrat Party in ‘72 and he certainly would have fared better with the voting public than that traitor-Commie George McGovern.

That's absolutely ludicrous. Wallace couldn't have gotten the Democratic nomination in a million years, even if he had won every Southern primary.