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WI: President Goldwater

JFK lives, and as a result the Salad Oil Swindle results in a massive financial crash and recession, the worst since 1929. During the campaign Kennedy gets hit with major scandals (Mob ties, affairs, etc.), and the Bobby Baker scandal is bad enough that it forces Kennedy to drop Johnson from the ticket (which in turn leads to major Democratic losses in the South). The main problem with this scenario (aside from the fact that it requires everything that can go bad for Kennedy to go bad) is that if things look that dire there's going to be a lot more competition for the Republican nomination, and Goldwater may not win it if that happens.
 
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