Recent content by Gosing

  1. The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

    Wouldn't this be fun... Major electoral reform movement coming?
  2. AHC/WI: Let's Get Barry Goldwater In The White House

    Quite true. Another thing that comes to mind: one of the things that hurt Goldwater among moderate Republicans in OTL was the fact that Eisenhower was rather cool to him and his campaign, as Goldwater had become a conservative hero in large part by calling Ike out for being too leftist. I...
  3. AHC/WI: Let's Get Barry Goldwater In The White House

    Sixteen points? Sixteen points is nothing for Barry Goldwater. ;) The closest the polling got in 1964 itself was twenty-eight points (59-31); the most lopsided was fifty-nine (77-18)-but the actual margin ended up being twenty-three. Fifty-nine or even twenty-eight points behind in a poll is a...
  4. AHC/WI: Let's Get Barry Goldwater In The White House

    I've recently been reading Rick Perlstein's excellent book Before the Storm about the conservative fringe movement of the 1950s and early 1960s, and how it basically managed to steal the Republican Party in 1964 to nominate Barry Goldwater for President. Now, the more I read about Goldwater, the...
  5. What Would A Humphrey Presidency Do?

    One good result: there's no way Mr. "Out of the shadow of states' rights and into the sunshine of human rights" would engage in any Nixon-style dogwhistling. Humphrey had been anomalously forward-thinking on civil rights from the start of his career, and as president he would likely be even...
  6. Someone goes to India: Indo-US cooperation in the 60s

    Could Sino-American tensions perhaps be worsened by having the Korean Border Conflict in the late '60s spiral into war?
  7. AHC: Make the War on Terror worse.

    Bush dies in 9/11 which leads to Cheney going into Afghanistan harder and gets Bin Laden in 2001 which leads to earlier invasion of Iraq with more troops which leads to a smaller post-invasion insurgency which leads to a mysterious new piece of evidence linking 9/11 with the Iranian government...
  8. Southern resistance movement

    A good first step would be strengthening the hand of the radicals in some way. Say, the Radical Republicans do a bit better in 1864 (any suggestions?), and are able to get a better deal in return for returning to the main Republican fold, including the Vice Presidency-heck, maybe even John...
  9. DBWI: The Maginot Plan failed

    Well, first things first: how long does the Hitlerite government survive ITTL? The driving force behind the (OoC: feel free to ignore this if it doesn't work) September 25 Coup was the seeming return of stalemate to the Western Front. Blitzkrieg's fundamental appeal was the idea that in a few...
  10. The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

    Some reflections on the above: Of all the pleasures in this world, crushing Richard Nixon like a bug has to be one of the most satisfying. :D Though to be honest, it was mostly luck. I was playing on normal, and doing my standard schtick of "end the war, be nice and liberal but not too...
  11. The Campaign Trail Game Has Returned.

    Hold your ground! Hold your ground! Sons of Roosevelt, of Johnson, my brothers, I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me. A day may come when the courage of liberals fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship-but this is not that day. An hour of...
  12. Plausability, some section of CSA arranges Lincoln's Murder

    No, I think that the Vice Presidency would remain vacant until the next presidential inauguration.
  13. Ask Me About Ancient Egypt

    I'm sure this is a very thorny issue, but are there any customs or folklore in modern Egypt thst we're certain/mostly sure/vaguely suspect might be in some way remnants of Ancient Egyptian culture?
  14. South does not secede

    I see no reason why slavery has to die out by 1900. Certainly by that point the balance would begin to swing towards free states, but if the Southerners had been just a bit smarter than OTL (avoiding things like Bleeding Sumner and minimizing violence on the frontier) then most Northerners just...
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