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No, but he might've made it closer (flipping Florida possibly). 2012 just wasn't the right time or the right environment for Christie. A 2016 where he kept his nose cleaned and Trump doesn't run is the year I see Chris Christie becoming President.

I doubt Clinton's Presidency (Clinton considered running that year OTL only to sit it out) gets moved up. It took the perfect set of circumstances to get Clinton nominated in the first place that likely wouldn't be there ITTL. Bush wins election in his own right in 1984 and 1988 would either be...

No 'Nam: 36. Lyndon Johnson / Vacant (Democratic): 1963-1965 36. Lyndon Johnson / Hubert Humphrey (Democratic): 1965-1973 Def. 1964: Barry Goldwater / William Miller (Republican) Def. 1968: Richard Nixon / Spiro Agnew (Republican), George Wallace / Curtis LeMay (American Independent) 37. Hubert...

Only against an incumbent President Dukakis and even that is very much a stretch.

I don't think the country would elect a mayor to the Presidency in 1980, even a charismatic one like Cuomo. I think a Cuomo that wins in 1988, 1992, or 1996 in a scenario where 41 gets a second term, has potential to be the left's Reagan. I don't see it happening with him any earlier than 88 or...

Jeb could be well positioned to take the nomination and win the election to, if he wants it and if Cheney doesn't stop him.

It's kind of disturbing really. We had: 35. Al Gore Sr. (DEM): 1961-1969 36. George Romney (REP): 1969-1977 37. Richard Nixon (REP): 1977-1982* 38. Howard Baker (REP): 1982-1989 39. Al Gore Jr. (DEM): 1989-1997 40. George HW Bush (REP): 1997-2001 41. John McCain (REP): 2001-2005 42. Tipper Gore...

Yup, Al Sr's Presidency lead to 20 years of Republicans in the White House (Romney, Nixon, Baker) with Romney being the only exceptional president of the three and Tipper being voted out in a landslide in 2008. Al Jr. was really the only great President Gore, hell had the Democrats ran someone...

Nixon really did have a successful Presidency (for a Republican). He won in 1980 with both Houses of Congress in Republican control and while he did lose the House in 1982, he kept the Senate until 1987. While it is true that Reagan won with both houses in 1972, the GOP got stomped in 1974 and...

Hugh Carey, Birch Bayh, or ironically the guy Reagan beat in a 49 state landslide OTL, Walter Mondale.

This was also true of another President that many consider invincible, Bill Clinton. Clinton looked like a dead duck at the end of 1994. By 1996, his fortunes, like Reagan's improved.

He would've made it closer, more so than Hart or Glenn would've, but he still would've lost. You don't beat a charismatic incumbent with GDP over 5%, falling unemployment, and no war.

Bump...

Yup. one has to wonder if the trend of one term Presidents of the '70s (Humphrey, Reagan, Muskie) would've happened if Nixon were elected 12 years earlier. Reagan making him Secretary of State really helped Nixon re invent himself even more than he did between 1960 and 1968.

What if Richard Nixon, Vice President of the United States from 1953-61 and two time Republican Presidential nominee (1960, 1968) had defeated Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 Presidential election? Would Nixon have pulled out of Vietnam in 1971 like Humphrey did? Would the economy have fared better...

Nixon, then Kennedy, and what comes after: 35. Richard Nixon / Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican): 1961-1969 Def. 1960: John Kennedy / George Smathers (Democratic) Def. 1964: Eugene McCarthy / Stuart Symington (Democratic), George Wallace / Happy Chandler (American Independent) 36. Robert Kennedy...

I think the "Dark Age" (or Bronze era) of Disney animated films that happened after Walt's Death in OTL happens in the 1950s and 60s as opposed to the 1970s and 80s in OTL and I think the Disney Studio is more likely to go under ITTL (likely sometime in the 70s) as the Disney brand itself...

Your Challenge, should you accept it is to elect Al Gore President of the United States in 1988. How does his Presidency go? What are his chances of getting a second term? How does Gore winning in 88 shape the balance of power in Congress through the 90s and (if you choose to answer) beyond?

Harkin, Kerrey, butterflies could prevent Biden's plagiarism scandal and have in run in 1992, butterflies could also push Gephardt, Bradley, or Gore to run to.

Of all the candidates listed, Mitt and Taft would've been the worst. As for the rest, I think they would've ranged from mediocre to poor. I'd also like to add: Gore would've been better than Bush 43. Kerry would've to, but him winning in 2004 would've been a disaster for the Democrats...