2004 election

It was a cool autumn evening in Boston. It wasn't any ordinary day; it was election day, and pundits on cable TV all said the same thing. Democrat John Kerry and Republican President George W. Bush are neck and neck; the election is anyone's to win, and any small polling error could change the...

ALL THE WAY TO WASHINGTON: Howard Dean and the Fight to Take Back America On this day, 20 years ago, former Governor Howard Dean of Vermont let out a loud cry in an Iowa concession speech. This is where the story starts and ends for most people. The “I have a scream” speech, it was called at...

Can you imagine him doing well enough in Ohio to beat Bush? Could he win, or get the margins tight in North Carolina, and Virginia? Who would he pick as his running mate?

The first PoD in my scenrio is the earlier War on Terror- instead of 9/11 the 1993 WTC bombing succeeds and Clinton invades Sudan (which hosted the AQ at the time), while intevening more in Somalia and Rwanda. Dur to the Rally around the Flag effect, there is no Republican revolution in 1994...

Look at recent primaries, and the delegate count, popular vote difference, etc... and it's hard to find another Democrat who won his parties nomination so quickly and overwhelming (and please don't point to Gore vs Bradley, that doesn't count) Ironically of course, Kerry lost to Bush, and...

Hey folks. I'd really like to write up a Howard Dean scenario, or even make a silly wikibox. But I'm a bit stumped on who he would've picked as his VP. Gephardt seemed the obvious choice at first, but they argued a fair amount during the primaries and sort of attract the same voter. Is Edwards...

Say Kerry somehow wins Ohio, and that results in him winning the 2004 election, how would the next presidential elections up to 2020 play out keeping in the mind that the Great Recession would still happen and so would the COVID-19 pandemic?

On December 16th 2002 Former Vice President Al Gore appeared on 60 Minutes saying that he was still unsure about a 2004 Presidential run and he and his wife Tipper would think about it and make a decision early next year. In March 2003 Gore would start a presidential exploratory committee to...

As the title says, what happens if John Kerry won 2004? Nothing else in the election changes other than Kerry gets more votes in Ohio to beat out Bush. Say maybe it’s a reverse of 2000 where instead of Florida being very narrowly won by Bush in 2000, in 2004 Ohio is very narrowly won by Kerry...

For a Better America 1996 Republican National Convention ----------------------------------------------------------------- Point of Divergence When the previous fiscal year ended on September 30, 1995, the Democratic president and the Republican-controlled Congress had not passed a budget. A...

Hi Everyone,this is basically going to be sort of a roleplay game thing where you can post the events of U.S Election Cycles from 2000 Onward. If you are interested in joining we will start with the 2000 Election.With candidate announcements and such From November 1st 1999

I posted this on the main 'Discussion of Events after 1900' thread and got an in depth reply, but I'm still kind of stumped on where to take my universe. My timeline's POD is a successful Reagan assassination in 1981. Bush takes over after, and the line of succession is as follows: 1980-81...

What does it look like, and without 9/11 and the War on Terror would Bush have enough popularity to win re-election?

Paul Wellstone was a Democratic senator from Minnesota, and like many Democratic senators from Minnesota he was a champion for liberal and progressive causes such as campaign finance reform and other things. In 1999 he explored a possible presidential run, but did not go through with it because...

I'm not too sure if somebody asked this before, but what would the 2004 U.S. presidential election look had there not been 9/11 or any serious related attacks which led to invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. These events were serious cases that helped Bush W. get reelected since wartime presidents...

I had this idea for a scenario regarding the electoral college. What if Kerry won the popular vote but still lost the electoral college to Bush to the same amount as he did in OTL? How would the country react? What would Congress do? Would there be some kind of a reform to abolish it and would...

So let’s say that 9/11 is foiled in some way, whether it be the Bush admin paying attention to the warning signs, or Bin Laden being killed in an air strike in 1998, or whatever. Without 9/11, how does Dubya’s first term play out, and does he get re-elected in 2004? Additionally who would be the...

In 2004, John Kerry wanted his friend John McCain to be his running mate on a bipartisan "unity ticket." Polling from May 2004 showed that a Kerry/McCain ticket had a 14% lead over Bush among registered voters. McCain showed interested but he ultimately declined and endorsed Bush. Curiously...

The 2004 US Presidential Election was very close: had only one state (Ohio) flipped to John Kerry, George W. Bush would've been a one term President. Bush is often considered one of America's worst Presidents, and many wonder why he was re-elected despite a weak economy, the Abu Ghraib scandal...

One Night in Boston: The Ramifications of the 2004 Democratic National Convention. One of the major surprises in the lead up to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston was that the keynote speaker happened to come down to two candidates. One was Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee to...