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For whatever reason Democrats in Wisconsin had a different sense of what the Recall was for than Republicans in California. Having Walker lose isn't impossible-but the case has to be more than "his policies are awful." If I remember correctly there were some allegations of misconduct before...

The recall did not coincide with the Presidential election. The elections were held on different dates. The Obama effect only occurs if the two are on the same ticket at the same day. Even if the elections were on the same day there's no guarantee that the Obama effect would be enough to push...

I think any Democrat would have had trouble winning the recall. He doesn't just have to make the case against Walker-he has to make the case for a recall based on a policy disagreement rather than a clear violation of the law. There were a number of voters who voted to keep Walker in office...

You have to make him the nominee of one of the major parties. He's not a great pick for the Democratic Party at the time but the Republican Party held the Presidency and defeating a President in a primary is really really hard. Still if there was a year when the Democratic Party was in enough...

Romney is the perfect candidate to run against when the economy is collapsing because of the deregulated banking sector. He's extremely easy to characterize as an aloof plutocrat. Any candidate running against someone perceived as an aloof plutocrat-at a moment in time when the economy is...

Lincoln Chafee began his campaign by talking about the metric system-his main debate strategy was to passively aggressively announce that he there were no scandals associated with him. When he was asked about his support for now controversial legislation as a Senator his defense essentially...

Ben Carson would have won. Lincoln Chafee was not particularly effective when he sought the nomination. I have no idea how he wins the nomination. Realistically I can the Democratic nomination having gone to Vice President Joseph Biden, Senator Warren, or even Senator Sanders in lieu of...

What about the Supreme Court? That seems to me to be the most significant consequence of a Dewey/Warren administration. Earl Warren is never on the Court. Has the Dewey planned to appoint J. Edgar Hoover to the Court idea ever been debunked? No Warren on the Court is alone more momentous than...

If Putin is never President of the Russian Federation he probably winds up rotting in Jail. There were a lot of corruption investigations against him from his time in St. Petersburg that were shelved as he rose to power. He was reportedly already known for greed and theft in his KGB days-so...

If Gore loses the popular vote Florida almost certainly won't decide the election. There were a number of states that went for the Gore/Lieberman ticket by narrow margins. Flip almost any of those states to Bush and Florida isn't enough to push Gore past the 270 mark. In that case there's no...

The Bush family has been involved in politics for so long that I have trouble seeing either of the Bush's not trying to run for office. No 41 in politics means 43's life is completely different. All else equal I think W. would eventually find a comfortable corporate job. Bill Clinton would...

While My Guitar Gently Weeps is easily strong enough to warrant a single release. If there's not a deliberate decision to release an album for each Beatle simply releasing While My Guitar Gently Weeps/Long, Long, Long as a single might be the solution to the problem of "what to do with...

Jerry Brown.

What was Qussay Hussein doing during the war? Is there any scenario whereby both Qussay and Saddam end up as casualties? That might break the regime in one way or another or at least put it in non-Hussein family hands. Nobody wanted Uday to inherit his father's position-not even Saddam himself.

The decision to allow Hussein to have helicopters was to my admittedly limited knowledge made by General Schwartzkoph. The Iraqis persuaded him that their infrastructure had been so damaged by the war that they needed helicopters to meet basic transportation requirements. Once Iraq had secured...

I know this is a bit of a bump but I just thought of something. George Harrison did release solo records in 1968 and 1969-Wonderwall Music and Electronic Sound. While there isn't enough space on either record to put all the Harrison White album songs on the album. But he might be able to tack...

Wouldn't Bush and General Schwartzkoph also have to keep the armed helicopters out the reach of the Hussein regime to ensure that outcome? Or is that implied by the destruction of the Republican Guard? One interesting question about the fall of Saddam Hussein in the early 1990's is how the...

Given the Bush administration's realist outlook and the Saudi perspective mentioned earlier I cannot see marching into Baghdad to overthrow Hussein as a deliberate policy choice. If Saddam falls as a result of the Gulf War that either means. A. He personally was killed somehow as a result of...

Carter lost the election in large measure because of the dual foreign policy crises of 1979/1980. If for whatever reason Afganistan and Iran don't happen he would stand a surprisingly strong chance at victory. Albeit there's a risk that without that situation Ted Kennedy beats him in the...

Reading this the easiest way to do to convict John Landis is to indict him for the underlying violation of the law and make the instructions to the jury a bit clearer. Landis violated the law in hiring the actors. This isn't a matter up for interpretation. But he wasn't indicted on that count...