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Its a common idea in alternate history for the 22nd amendment that created presidential term limited to never come into effect. As most know, the big reason it passed was due to the Republicans controlling congress in the late 40's and basically reacting to FDR being president for so long...

My first timeline about 1836, an often forgettable but interesting timeline about a pretty wacky Election. I'm busy with school, but I'll try to update regularly. Enjoy...

Supposedly there were changes in this alternate American politics, regardless of how it shifted, which made the Dem vs Rep split into these traits. Republicans: Balance between business and regulation, internationalism and realism, but socially liberal Democrats: Protectionist and [if can]...

OOC Disclaimer: My Double-Blind scenarios have a history of confusing people, so I'll just put this here in case you don't know what's going on. This is a Double-Blind scenario (in this case a Double-Blind What If), a scenario from the perspective of a timeline where things went a different way...

The US famously really only has two parties that matter the most in politics, and that’s the Democrats and Republicans. But in the last 4 years or so, we’ve really seen diverging ideas within those political parties. Many of these ideologies would have their own parties if they weren’t part in...

Say the Democratic Party in the 1864 election splits with the Pro-War faction supporting George McClellan and the Copperheads running their own candidate. Now in OTL Lincoln won the election in a landslide and gained a majority in both the House and the Senate, so a split Democratic party is...

It often comes as a surprise that Rudy Giuliani, one of New York's most influential Democrats, once considered switching parties. In the 1970s, Giuliani flirted with joining the GOP in order to move up the ladder as a federal prosecutor. However, Giuliani decided against this and remained a...

With a POD of 1990 have the GOP be at least semi libertarian, and the democrats be at least semi populist. What effects does this have on us politics? What states become “blue” and “red”? I thought about doing this when I saw these posts...

The POD is the United States doesn't divide Indochina at Geneva in 1954, and free elections see a united Vietnam twenty-one years early. Back at home, US Presidential elections from 1956 to 1964 follow the same course and in 1968 LBJ is still President. Without the Vietnam War dividing the...

One act that I have always never been fond of and wished to be repealed is the Reapportionment Act of 1929 which limits the amount of members of the House to just 435. I've always found this to be rather undemocratic method as it does not take into account the growth of the United States, which...

As has probably been discussed before, Arthur Bremer, the man who would later shoot and paralyze Alabama Governor George Wallace, had initially plotted to kill then-President Richard Nixon. On April 13, 1972, Bremer traveled to Ottawa, Wisconsin with a revolver tucked into his jacket pocket...

Namely, Nixon must be the Republican candidate in '60, and '64. He must also serve two FULL terms. (I suppose something Watergate-esque could occur and he could be impeached, because Nixon, but let's avoid that for now) Thoughts?

As the OP says, can the Republicans gain the Solid South from the Democrats without becoming a party that allows racists and racial resentment to fester since Nixon's Southern Strategy?

As the title says, could the Democrats have regained power in the South (south of the Mason-Dixon line) at the Presidential level and state level after Ronald Reagan? Like, more than just Bill Clinton's win in a few Southern states in 1992 and 1996? Like totally, they win the South's electoral...

Inspired by the thread I made the other day about a possible Herman Cain Presidency, I wonder: What if the 2008 Election had been between Barack Obama, on the Democratic ticket, and Herman Cain, on the Republican ticket? Would Cain be able to win, or would George W. Bush's eight years in office...

IOTL, Herman Cain ran for President in both the 2000 and 2012 Elections. His campaigns never saw great success, and he withdrew from the Republican primaries in both cases. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have Cain become President at some point. Whether he wins one of the...

What if Ronald Reagan had managed to beat out Richard Nixon for the Republican Nomination in the 1968 election? Who would be a likely running mate for him? Would he stand a chance at winning, or would his closeness to Barry Goldwater sink his campaign in the General Election? And if he did win...

IOTL, Vice President Al Gore swept the 2000 Democratic Primary, winning every state and soundly defeating New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, who was his only primary challenger. But what if, through one means or another, Bradley pulled an upset and managed to clinch the Democratic nomination? Who...

As the title states, make Jesse Jackson the President of the United States in 1989. Whether he wins the 1988 election on his own, or is elevated to the Presidency after becoming VP, is of little consequence.

How could the Bill Clinton administration have passed healthcare reform in the 1990s? Bonus points if the PoD is after the 1992 US election and Clinton serves his OTL term as President. It doesn't have to be the OTL Hillarycare proposal or Hillarycare, but it does have to be major healthcare...