Recent content by mr1940s

Incumbent President McGovern would be stronger against a mid 1970s vintage Ronald Reagan in much of the South and Appalachia then he was against Richard Nixon in our 1972. With their narrow electoral college win in 1972 it would be wise for McGovern to make a play for the South and Southwest...

What is the role of Labor policy in McGovernomics, both in practice and in reality? Like any Democratic President since 1946 McGovern will be under pressure to repeal or at least weaken Taft-Hartley. By the middle of the 1970s organized labor was beginning to face three major challenges Loss...

Galbraith looks like John Cassavetes in this picture. Who knows maybe John could play Galbraith on television or in a film while raising money for one of his masterpieces with Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk and Ben Gazzarra.

And being the bottom of a losing ticket was every less valuable than it is today

Unlike many Borbon Democrats Stevenson did support Bryan in 1896 after he won the nomination. If I may quote the wikipedia page on Stevenson he seemed to have been an appealing option for many Democrats as a unity VP candidate, however this was partly due to other democrats avoiding the Bryan...

A question for Vidal and the writers of other US political timelines in this era, why were so many Democratic Senators primaried in 1980?

Southern elites started to shift to the Republicans back in the 1920s with Hoover cracking the solid south. Though FDR dominated the southern states in the 1930s there were alliances between southern normally Democratic conservatives and Republicans mainly in the north who opposed the New Deal...

And was a genuine misstep by the Reagan campaign causing him to lose support in Mississippi, which incidentally narrowly went for him in OTL.

I wonder what role will CNN and its founder, Georgian and friend of President Carter, Ted Turner, play in the timeline?

Could you give us dear readers a definition of McGovern Moment, that would work for a text book or dictionary from this timeline?

An argument could be made that Antisemitism In Russia, was starting to, or would have, become more race based and pseudo scientific with the growth of right wing mass politics, including the Black Hundreds. Speaking of the Black Hundreds, Nicholas the II's failure to capitalize on the emergence...

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A question I have for @Yes I ask with some trepidation. As a writer I am sure you are tired of the lengthy messages asking about a host of famous people at one go. However I do want to ask about a specific type of person in the McGovern verse. Right now I am interested in people whose careers...

Apparently there was talk of Muskie as a Secretary of State in the second term, he was increasingly tired of the senate and knew he wouldn’t become President.

Nice update! Three questions though ' Taking place in New York City and with speeches by Abe Beam and Cuomo, do the Democrats really want a convention that heavily dominated by New Yorkers? Or is this a genuine play to win over ethnic white working/middle class voters in the Northeast and...