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Looking at the 2008 election results-then Minority Leader McConell was the Republican Senator that year who avoided defeat by the narrowest margin. This isn't to say that the election was extremely narrow-but if one more Republican was going to lose McConnell may been that Senator. What...

I'm sure this has been discussed before but I couldn't find a specific thread on this topic. In any event what would the Jefferson administration looked like had the election not been thrown to the House? Without being tainted by his effort to win the Presidency in the House would Burr play a...

Prior to the 1972 election the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee was Emmanuel Celler. Celler narrowly lost the 1972 primary. Had he prevailed in that election he would have been Chairman of the House Judiciary Commitee in the midst of the Watergate Scandal. According to no less an...

It's pretty much there in the title-what if Brian Jones-founding member of the Rolling Stones- not died in 1969? Granted he was in really bad shape for a couple years by that point-he's been described as an accident waiting to happen. But I would hesitate to say that survival-at least for a...

I'm not sure whether this is even possible or how to pull off the background. I am wondering what the impact would have been if the provisions of the 20th amendment had come into effect slightly earlier, or at least the date of the inauguration had shifted from March 4th to January 20th in time...

Three years ago I asked what would have happened if Johnson had defeated O'Daniel and entered the Senate years ahead of schedule. The thread quickly died. I have been wondering about this topic again lately, and rather than resurrect a dead thread I wanted to ask the question again...

Because of Bush's extraordinarily high approval rating during the Gulf War most prominent Democratic potential candidates did not enter into the race, ensuring that the nominee would likely be something a "Dark Horse" candidate that at least initially appeared to be an unusually open race...

Given the problems Sony is currently having with their rebooted franchise I was wondering what might have happened if the original franchise had either not been rebooted or if the reboot had been delayed by at least one more Raimi directed film. Firstly, what divergence would be needed for...

How would the dynamics of the Watergate scandal need to change such that Nixon does not resign, but is still in a position to at least face Impeachment in the House. From there was there any possibility Nixon could decide against resignation in an Impeachment atmosphere where conviction in the...

Just a quick question, what would the cultural role of the King Arthur myth have been had Arthur Tudor lived to succeed his father? And how might the development of the myth afterwards be shaped by Arthur's reign?

After Superman IV, Warner Brothers tried to make a new Superman film for over a decade. After all that time, in 2006, Superman Returns was released, and the studio considered the film a disappointment and no sequel was made. Finally, in 2013, Man of Steel was released, and Warner Brothers...

Justice Douglas was one of FDR's choices for the 1944 Vice Presidential nomination once it became apparent that renominating Henry Wallace would be an uphill endeavor. Could Douglas have been accepted at the convention in place of Truman? If so would a FDR/Douglas ticket fair any differently...

I apologize if it seems like I am flooding the board with this topic. But since I have been discussing this topic in another thread I thought it would make sense to make it its own topic and stop drifting that thread off topic. In any event, the backlash over Tim Burton's Batman Returns is...

I know that this was never a likely outcome. In writing this I am not justifying the impeachment of President Clinton. I am not trying to argue that Clinton deserved to be removed from office, or anything of the sort. Nor am I arguing that President Clinton came reasonably close to leaving...

Admittedly, I do not have a precise divergence as to when this was ever likely to have happened. But I have been wondering lately as to what the history of Britain would have looked like in the more or less complete absence of the Jacobite cause after the death of the deposed James II. Presuming...

During Saturday Night Live's first season, Chevy Chase was the show breakout star. But Chase left the show quickly, to be replaced by Bill Murray in the cast. What if Chase had either decided or had been contractually obligated to remain on the show for longer than he did? What would NBC's...

Early on during Jay Leno's tenure as the host of the Tonight Show, there were elements in NBC that thought that he was not a successful host and that the Tonight Show was floundering on his watch. If I remember correctly, there was briefly a plan according to which Leno would be fired as host...

I was inspired to write this by discussion in the Wallace thread which indicated the possibility of McGovern receiving the 1976 Democratic nomination in a scenario where he failed to win the nomination in 1972. I think this is an intriguing concept that deserves a thread to itself. For a...

I am wondering about how the Clinton years might have unfolded under the following circumstances. A set of divergences in the Bush years see Richard Cheney remain in the House, and Newt Gingrich thrown out of office. Butterflies are minor enough that Bush still loses to Bill Clinton in 1992. Now...

This is a pretty radical departure in cinematic history. But I was wondering how might Welles' career have been altered had he decided on a different subject for his first feature than fictionalized version of William Randolph Hearst? I know this is a radical alteration as I am speculating on...