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Blackmun's health was pretty excellent when he retired, his death was because of a very sudden decline. He should certainly be able to hang on to at least 1996-7. Given his level of investment in Roe v Wade, he'd only retire in a box under a Republican president. White may still retire but he...

There's no assurance that they'll stay in New England forever after just because one generation does. The Romneys and the Kennedies - and the Clintons for that matter - have ranged pretty wide.

I mean, I don't think the KOEI games have had that much penetration in the west. Obviously, they've helped popularise the subject with gamers in the west to some degree, but they've not revolutionised western understanding or appreciation. It's been a niche advance, amongst only some gamers. In...

But muh moderate superman! Indeed, Bush wasn't pro-choice in 1980. I don't know where Amadeus has got that from. He was running a moderate position on that, contra the Gipper's pro-constitutional amendment position - that's what that platform position your cite is implicitly referring to. More...

Atwater had been running Bush's campaign even before it was a campaign, back in 1985-86. C'mon, this is basic googleable stuff. I don't think there's any way he's winning Iowa, btw. Too much farm crisis anger for which the Bobster was a perfect vehicle, and the 1980 organisation had atrophied...

Refer back to my reply about him being a VP choice that year - https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-biden-vp-under-clinton.466583/#post-18832121 1992 just isn't his year.

They didn't go through with the middle class tax cut because in polling and focus groups it didn't have any resonance, and people hadn't expected to receive it anyway, and it was at odds with deficit reduction. A major stimulus was never going to pass the Senate, and was probably unnecessary...

Making it all the fault of Rupie or the Tories is a great myth, unfortunately the tabloids were just echoing popular opinion at the time. Someone else can speak for the US, but the British public had been strongly homophobic even before Murdoch bought the Sun, and would continue to be until well...

It's difficulty to really say. It definitely gave homophobia a shot in the arm in the eighties, as it played into a lot of homophobic tropes and gave homophobia a veneer of evidential respectability, however it precisely contributed to making the situation so bad that it got a lot of people at...

I worked out where I read about the Hatch blocking; it was in Greenburg. Apparently she reckons they were determined to block Hatch, so inserted a memo on the constitutional bar of him going to the SCOTUS. Some other specifically Bork-centric source books reckon Hatch was a genuine contender...

I think it was always going to be one of those things which looked good for five minutes of headlines, but then the problems would set in. And I think they eventually realised that, Ford included. I don't think the thing you cite of 'I'm just there as a sleeping partner', I don't think that's...

Honestly, I think you can pretty much effectively discount Ford as well. The move to pick Ford was never close to reaching culmination. It's actually surprising it got as far off the ground as it did, IMO. I think it was always going to be realistically between Baker and Bush. And that makes me...

It's possible he does a bit better in 88. IOTL he had serious trouble as a result of it in fundraising in LA and California, and it jarred horribly with the kind of image he was working off, of him being a young boomer candidate. As a result he was mostly relying on IMPAC's money and became a...

Though I appreciate the work of your good self, all of this is so obvious it doesn't actually need a cite. This is a waste of a thread.

Biden was known for being a foreign policy specialist in 2008 when Obama selected him, and after he'd been chair of the foreign relations committee in the Bush years - not in 1992. In 1992, he was nationally known for being chair of the judiciary committee, and the judiciary committee which had...

Clinton is not picking Biden as running mate.

Man, I'd love a timeline where Reagan is criticising Carter as a 'mad bomber'...

I assume people who believe this are not aware that at the time of the invisible primary, I.E at the time when the nomination campaign was functionally taking form, Clinton was believed to be beatable by a fairly wide avenue of opinion, including within it a certain Bill Clinton. I agree...

He was consciously running as a fuzzy moderate, contra Mondale, not a conservative per se. (If there was anyone who was running as a conservative, it was someone who this thread keeps obsessing over, Reubin Askew) And in 1983, people expected the nomination would be between Mondale and Glenn...

This is at least more accurate than 'centrist' as a descriptor of the 1992 campaign. That run was all about angry populist outsider-ism; a flat tax, campaign finance reform, etc. A funhouse mirror of centrism. The key thing about Jerry of course, is that he's wandered all over hell's half acre...