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More interesting would be if it led to a Harkin Presidency. Anyway, Clinton still had a chance, but I think it'd be tougher if Hart and his "New Ideas" go down to defeat in 1984, especially if technocrat Dukakis still gets nominated in 1988 like in OTL and gets beaten. As to Clinton being...

Reagan Calls it Quits in 1984: 40. Ronald Reagan / George Bush (Republican): 1981-1985 Def. 1980: Jimmy Carter / Walter Mondale (Democratic), John Anderson / Patrick Lucy (Indpendent) 41. George Bush / Pete du Pont (Republican): 1985-1993 Def. 1984: Walter Mondale / Dianne Feinstein...

Bush also likely wins a second term in 1988 only to see his VP or Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole go down to defeat to a Democrat in 1992. Bush is remembered much better than OTL, Reagan is seen as anywhere from average to below average.

Bush gets the nomination (though not without competition) and picks Kemp, du Pont, or Laxalt as VP to keep the far right rallied. He goes on to beat Mondale (or if butterflies allow it, Hart) with ease, though not by as big of a margin as Reagan did OTL.

Late '80's or early '90's at the absolute latest, the late '70's or early '80's is more realistic though.

The Presidency wouldn't have gone through such a roller coaster. I mean, Rocky won in 76 only to die in 79, leaving us President Dole, who Ted Kennedy Crushed in 1980. Then, Kennedy suffers the fate of his brothers and gets assassinated in the Spring of 1981, leaving us President Bentsen, who by...

I don't think a Robertson primary or even a Pat Buchanan victory is possible. Even in the 90s OTL there were still enough moderate voices left in the GOP to keep that from happening, and I think would remain true in a 1989-1992 that sees Dukakis as President.

Bob Dole is the Republican nominee in 1992. Expecting a 1980 repeat, he gets complacent and scales back campaigning, while Dukakis campaigns hard and eeks out a narrow upset win. While the Democrats lose the Senate and narrowly lose the House in 1994, Dukakis is credited with the improved...

My God Keyes was awful, worse than Reagan. If only the Democrats nominated Dean or Gephardt in 2004 instead of that clusterfuck of a candidate that was Edwards, we would've never had the disaster that was Keyes's Presidency.

Ford (if he and his running mate were to beat Carter/Church) would've handled the late 70s better than Reagan and we still would've gotten President Askew in 1980 whether it was Ford or Reagan in the Presidency. The question I have is would a second Ford term been as damaging for the GOP as...

This. I think even Mondale has a higher chance at re nomination than Dukakis for this very reason.

The Bushes if they never moved to Texas.

I think McCain (or someone similar) narrowly defeats Gore in 2004, despite the fact that I think Gore would handle 9/11 (if it happens with Gore in the WH), better than Bush. 12 years of Democratic rule, a relentless right wing attack machine against Gore, and a so so recovery from the Dot Com...

George Bush defeats Bill Clinton in 1992, Joe Lieberman after securing an easy re election to the Senate in 1994 decides to run for President in 1996. Thanks to divided support in the primaries, he wins the nomination and, with his running mate Dick Gephardt, narrowly defeats Vice President...

He loses but it's closer, which likely means the GOP doesn't flip the Senate in 1980. I wonder how different Reagan's Presidency would've been without a Republican Senate?

Agnew still resigns without Watergate, so Nixon still replaces him and likely does so with Ford as Connolly would never get through congress due to Democrats seeing him as a traitor and Republicans not trusting him. Plus, IIRC, Connolly had baggage of his own. If not Ford, Nixon goes with Rocky...

Kennedy wins decisively in 1964 against Goldwater, but not in a landslide. There are coattails down ticket for Kennedy but they aren't as strong as Johnson's. A weaker Civil Rights bill gets passed in early 1965 but Voting Rights doesn't happen as Kennedy spends all of his capitol on the Civil...

I think both party would be more moderate than OTL on Social issues overall (the GOP being center right, the Dems center left).

They were, but not nearly as powerful as they became with Reagan OTL and on top of that, Carter won evangelicals in 1976 OTL so they’d be less republican in this TL to.

I don't think so. I think a Democratic President in the '80s is going to liberalize the economy somewhat, just not nearly to the extent that Reagan did OTL, or even Clinton and Carter did in their respective OTL Presidencies. Granted, I think the Democrats remain a more populist party in TTL...