With a POD in 1812, you're essentially redrawing the entire map west of the Mississippi. I doubt many (if any at all) of the OTL states and provinces would exist, since you're going to get different settlement patterns, no hard line at the 49th parallel, and entirely different methods of carving...
Only found this TL a week ago, and just caught up now. This is fantastic. There's so much that could be said about the creative and inspired figures used, or how common picks have been given their own twists, or the unusual amount of focus that's been given to foreign affairs here (normally...
I remember that something like ten, fifteen years ago, some scientists fully sequenced Ozzy Ozborne's genes for study, out of bewilderment that the man was in relatively good health despite his legendary substance abuse and hopes that we could discover something that explained it. I'm thinking...
This is covered in the 22nd Amendment:
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to...
This chapter was a great reminder that even though this is a timeline about Carter winning re-election and consigning Reagan to the dustbin of history (well, that's overstating it, but y'know), things aren't going to be easy. Jimmy is still Jimmy — stubborn as a mule and with a tendency to get...
Actually, that might be a reason for him to avoid taking the name Adrian — Adrian IV, our last English pope, is supposed to have authorized England's conquest of Ireland.
The conversation between Carter and Kennedy after the Pope's funeral is just fantastic — I think you really get across how the conversation is halting and awkward but still deeply affecting for both men. There's a lot said in what is not said.
Using the papal conclave smoke to indicate a...
I was probably overselling it a bit there. What I'm thinking is that, if the NDP's big splash turns out to be no splash at all, and the Liberals keep trucking away with majority governments while implementing a cente-left agenda, then I suspect the NDP is going to have a difficult time making a...
If Diefenbaker is out (and I agree with RogueBeaver that it's possible he stays on), I think the next leadership race would come down to Donald Fleming or Davie Fulton. Fleming would be the frontrunner, I think: he had made two bids already (and would go on to make a third IOTL, in '67) and was...
More of a history question than an alternate history question, but feel free to speculate on the latter too.
The Soviet Union was ostensibly a federation of 15 different states, but it was no secret that it was really just Russia and its satelites. This is clear by every metric, but it's most...
I actually think it's very plausible for Carter to not realize the extent of Humphrey's illness. As I see it, if Humphrey is starting to look better, isn't saying anything about his health, and there's no particular reason to think he's deliberately concealing anything… it's easy enough to...
Aha — after the first update, I was thinking "oh, I guess Vidal changed his mind on which cabinet post Carter would get", and that I didn't think State was as good a pick… but held off from saying so, not wanting to start the TL on a bum note. And now I see it was a feint!
I saw you sketching this out in the villa, but I wasn't expecting it so soon! Very excited to watch this car crash. Poor Jimmy.
Overjoyed that this still happened
Had a good chuckle at this. Why indeed…
Carter's victory was never in doubt but it's nevertheless cathartic to see. I think you did a great job with the election night coverage in particular; you capture all the emotions of the night, and how close the race is, but without dragging it out for...