john kerry

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...

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...

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...

As the title says, what if 9/11 happened 3 years later and happened either exactly on September 11th in 2004, or some other time in 2004 before the election. Let's assume this 9/11 goes very similarly to OTL's 9/11. How is the election affected? How does culture change? How are those 3 years...

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...

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I know this is relatively recent history, but just to set the stage for this DBWI thought experiment I'll recap the past 20 or so years of US history. In 2000, after a nail-biting election campaign, Vice-President John Kerry defeated George W. Bush and became the 43rd American President. Kerry...

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...

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...

After his narrow loss to George W. Bush in 2004, there was speculation that John Kerry would run again in 2008. But he declined, and instead ran for another term as Senator from Massachusetts. But what if Kerry had run for President again in 2008?

I am very proud to announce my choice for America’s next Secretary of State -- John Kerry. In a sense, John’s entire life has prepared him for this role. As the son of a Foreign Service officer, he has a deep respect for the men and women of the State Department -- the role they play in...

John Kerry won the 2004 election in a narrow race against President George W. Bush. The election was decided by the state of Ohio, which went for Kerry by less than 1%. What if Bush had carried Ohio and won a second term in 2004?

The POD is Ohio flips to John Kerry in the electoral college, and he defeats George W. Bush in the 2004 election. On January 20, 2005 Kerry begins his first term as the 44th President of the United States. Would Kerry have been re-elected in 2008?

Supposing that John Kerry had narrowly won in 2004 and the Great Recession still occurs in 2007 (it may be different due to butterflies, but this POD isn't going to change the economic forces that lead to the crash) how would President Kerry have handled the economy? And since a Republican...

So yeah, here's an interesting question. How could the 2008 recession be delayed? Like, as an example, if Kerry won in 2008, could he reverse the tax cuts or do something to delay the 2008 recession? I'm curious since the when of the recession occuring would have differing political...

In Yes We (Still) Can, Dan Pfeiffer indicates Daschle was far closer to running for president in 2004 than I had previously believed. Apparently, it was sort of like a Bill Clinton 1988 situation where he had everything ready, but just never hit 'go.' I didn't realize it had gotten that far...

What if 1992 Democratic nominee Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas would have selected Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts as his running mate and vice president, instead of Senator Al Gore of Tennessee for the United States Presidential Election of 1992? I remember reading that had Clinton had...

The title says it all, really. What if there had been a successful, large-scale act of bioterrorism committed in the United States in early 2004? How would President George W. Bush have reacted, both domestically and abroad? Assuming it was an act of radical Islamic terrorism, would this have...

August 17, 1985: Osama bin Laden, a young Afghan soldier, is killed by Soviet forces during the Soviet-Afghan War. December 12, 2000: The U.S. Supreme Court confirms that Texas Governor George W. Bush had defeated Vice-President Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential Election. September 11, 2001...