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    Close, But No Cigar: The Fall and Rise and Fall of the Reform Party

    2008 United States Presidential Election Republican: 48.47% Mitt Romney / Mark Sanford 417 Electoral Votes Democratic: 29.43% Joe Lieberman / Max Cleland 110 Electoral Votes Reform/Green/Libertarian: 21.55% Jesse Ventura / Matt González 11 Electoral Votes Pirate: 0.42% Ralph Nader / Winona...
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VII (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Well the second post in this thread is Obama in 2020. 2012 was 11 years ago and Obama, Palin and Clinton are all retired. Abiding by the thread rules is part of why I made Obama bump Biden off the ticket.
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VII (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    Apparently so, yes. I’ve never gotten in trouble in this site for describing OTL before.
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VII (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    I would like to know why exactly you think that post is a violation of Rule 1.
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VII (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    The 2012 United States Presidential Election: What if Roger Ailes never sexually assaulted Sarah Palin? <Mod EDIT -Current political post removed> Warning for last sentence. Rule 1.
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    The NextGen OTL Worlda Series

    Wonderful, although the Haudenosaunee claim upstate NY in its entirety, and Seminole is the name of the "Florida Indians".
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes VI (Do Not Post Current Politics or Political Figures Here)

    The Republican party split in 1804 between incumbent president Jefferson and his Vice President doomed the party’s re-election campaign just as it had for the opposing Federalists four years before. In 1800 Alexander Hamilton opposed incumbent president John Adams; now it was Jefferson and Vice...
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    Impossible Dreams Can Come True: US President Tom Bradley
    Threadmarks: Tom Bradley's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1989

    Tom Bradley's Inaugural Address, January 20, 1989 My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors. I thank President Reagan for his service to our nation and the world, as well as...
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    Close, But No Cigar: The Fall and Rise and Fall of the Reform Party

    Not pictured: 4. Ralph Nader / Winona LaDuke (Green Party) 4.7% 5. Pat Buchanan / Ezola Foster (Constitution Party) 1.2% Note: ITTL there are no "red states” nor “blue states" as those terms arose during the disputed 2000 election.
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    Impossible Dreams Can Come True: US President Tom Bradley

    1985: The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1985 passes over Reagan’s veto, with influential support from Governor Bradley. This revives Bradley's national political momentum after the 1984 loss. 1986: The Supreme Court rules bans on sodomy is unconstitutional in Hardwick v. Bowers...
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    Impossible Dreams Can Come True: US President Tom Bradley

    1984: Dem Primary: After Ted Kennedy refuses to run for President, Ohio Senator John Glenn emerges as a hawkish alternative to former President Jimmy Carter’s Vice President Walter Mondale, winning the New Hampshire primary. Jesse Jackson does better than expected, and his campaign manages to...
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    Impossible Dreams Can Come True: US President Tom Bradley

    Sure. There are two PODs in 1980. A little one and a big one. The first: William Goldman’s script for The Right Stuff is adopted in 1980. The second: The presidential debate between Carter and Reagan includes John Anderson as well, who wins the debate. Carter wins the second debate. This...
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    Impossible Dreams Can Come True: US President Tom Bradley

    IT'S BRADLEY Governor's Victory Makes History The Los Angeles Times, November 8, 1988 Thomas Bradley, the grandson of enslaved people, was elected the nation's 41st president Tuesday, breaking the ultimate racial barrier to become the first African American to claim the country's highest...
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    WI: USSR and China don't split during the Cold War (no Sino-Russian split)

    Probably would last as long as the Thousand Year Reich unless the capital was moved to Beijing. Best way to do this is avoiding the Chinese Civil War, but having Russia be in civil war until 1949 or so. Russia is conquered by the KMT or something.
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