Later on with Clinton and Carter yes, but for the Presidency in 1968, having both sides of the equation shaky helped Nixon to win. I was in High School during those years and we had mock elections. One of the students played George Wallace, who did win electoral votes 46 to be exact. It wasn’t enough to close the gap, but that is still a substantial amount. It was more of a perfect storm, The South was angry about desegregation, liberals were angry about Vietnam, RFK, who could have convinced the liberals that he WOULD get us out of Vietnam was killed, the Democratic Convention was a clusterf**k with a police riot outside that the delegates were unaware of and that turned people away from the Democrats. Once Nixon got in, he started shaping the narrative to “law and order” and finding ways to jail the people who opposed him by ramping up laws against drugs, which were then enforced to his benefit. It was a perfect Tsunami and a horrible mess.
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