If you ever find yourself in America and find that the conversation's dying out, just say "Blagojevich" and watch the carnage. For most he's at best a national embarrassment and politics at its worst and possible even a criminal mastermind with a body count in the hundreds. And that's not an...
Making America Feel Good Again
1977-1985: Ronald Reagan (R-CA)/Richard Schweiker (R-PA)
1976: Frank Church (D-ID)/John Glenn (D-OH)
1980: Henry Jackson (D-WA)/Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)
All-American Boy
1985-1993: Bill Clinton (D-AR)/John Glenn (D-OH)
1984: Richard Schweiker (R-PA)/Bill Brock...
Whoever replaces Agnew (Connally, Ford) might have to face Reagan in the primary, but with Nixon still in the White House he might clean the lane for his chosen successor. I don't think Carter's the Democratic nominee in this scenario, without Watergate there's not the same desire for something...
Party of Jackson and Jackson
1989-1993: George H.W. Bush (R-TX)/Dan Quayle (R-IN)
1988: def: Mario Coumo (D-NY)/Bob Graham (D-FL)
For a few months in 1988 it looked like Lee Atwater's wildest dreams were about to come true with the Democrats poised to nominate an outspoken, left-wing ni-...
Take your partner by the hand
1989-1994: Al Gore (D-TN)/Daniel Moynihan (D-NY)
1988: George H.W. Bush (R-TX)/Dan Quayle (R-IN)
1992: Bob Dole (R-KS)/Carroll Campbell (R-SC)
Young, smart, moderate, attractive and allegedly charismatic, it’s in hindsight not hard to see why the junior Senator...
Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell was considered by some to be the future first black President for a few years in the mid-90's: A suave, moderate, pragmatic reformer with an ability to build bridges between different racial groups. A dissapointing second term (and a federal conviction for tax...
Not Your Daddy's President Humphrey
1977: Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)/Dolph Briscoe (D-TX)
1976: Gerald Ford (R-MI)/Bob Dole (R-KS), Eugene McCarthy (I-MN)/Carl Maxey (I-WA)
The redemption of Hubert Humphrey can only be described as "short-lived". Entering the 1976 primary as what was beginning...
Linda Smith (four-time winner of the Northwestern Generic Name Championship) was a two term Representative from Washington who during her time in D.C. became known for being a massive conservative on social issues, a maverick reformer on most other things and not liking Newt Gingrich. After...
More wikiboxes from Teachdread's and Komodo's (and Stateman's, and jpj1421's) excellent Where The World Will Lead:
Despite his short term, H.R. Boucher was, between his massive Community Development program and his diplomatic efforts in negotiating the end of the Cold War, arguably the...
Charles W. Whittlesey: A Harvard-educated Wall Street lawyer, he served as an officer during WW1 and earned the Medal of Honor and national fame for successfully leading his multi-ethnic battalion through a one-week siege beyond enemy lines during the battle of the Argonne Forrest. He had...