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Playing with the Fair Vote Canada Seat Calculator (http://www.fairvote.ca/en/vote-calculator), I got the following results by putting in a rough appproximation of the 2011 general election: Con 168 seats NDP 109 seats Liberal 30 seats Independent 1 seat Conservative majority of 13 What's most...

IOTL, of course, the coup failed when Ferdinand Marcos found out their plans, leading them to barricade themselves in Camps Aguinaldo and Crane, sparking the EDSA Revolution. But what would have happened if Marcos didn't find out until it was too late? What kind of regime would the RAM have put...

Reading a scholarly article on the Russian anthem (here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/852511?seq=14), it seems that Yeltsin considered outlawing the Communist Party after the dissolution of the USSR. As we know, this didn't happen. But what if Yeltsin actually did get his ban through? What would...

With a POD before 2000, but after 1970, make the UCLA football team viable competition to USC. Bonus points if the Reggie Bush scandal still happens.

Your challenge, with a POD after 1900, is to basically reverse the political and social roles of San Francisco County and Orange County, i.e. the former becomes a bastion of the right, and the latter a bastion of the left.

So, yeah. What happens now that Catherine of Aragon gives birth to a male heir that manages to survive into adulthood?

So, after World War II, the newly restored Philippine Government had basically arrested the leaders who had collaborated a la Petain (in the form of the Second Republic) with the Japanese. In OTL, they were almost all pardoned, and some became politicians in the postwar governments. What would...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Metro Expo Line in LA County run underground instead of above ground along roughly the same route, with a POD no earlier than 2000.

So, exactly what it says on the tin - what would have happened if, instead of joining O'Connor's opinion? What would it have meant if, all of a sudden, Roe v. Wade meant nothing anymore? What political consequences would it have had?

Use a POD in 1970.

What would the political consequences if Adolf Hitler had been deported as per the order of Police President Grzesinski - namely, if the Reichskanzler signed the order? What would this have meant for the fortunes of the NSDAP?

What if, through some act of sheer luck/Divine Providence/insert something here, instead of crossing over to humans, HIV doesn't exist, or that a cognate form is transmitted to another animal, say, dogs? What does that mean for the Third World? The First? Does this change attitudes regarding...

Should you choose to accept it, with a POD after Taft-Hartley, your job is to stabilize or expand the percentage of the American workforce belonging to a labor union.

POD no earlier than VE Day. Extra points if Quebec becomes a small-c conservative stronghold by the turn of the century.

Say for whatever reason, Edward Kennedy can't swim free of the vehicle, and drowns along with Kopechne. What does that mean for family prospects? His Senate seat? Who tries to take up the Kennedy mantle? Yes, RogueBeaver, I'm looking at you.

Say the Cardinals elect Cardinal Arinze Pope? What would be the effects of having a black man as the earthly head of the world's largest Christian group?

Your challenge is to have the Union Nationale be a major party in Quebec in the present day with a POD between 1945 and 1959.

Okay, so Gandhi and Sardar Patel had contemplated disbanding the INC once Dominionhood was achieved in India. So what if this actually went through, and Nehru doesn't have overall leadership of the Congress upon independence? What would this mean for Indian parliamentary politics?

So, what if the jury found the police officers who beat King guilty? Say the State had been more convincing, or the trial had taken place in Los Angeles?

No, this isn't a pro-or-anti abortion thread. If you were looking for that, that's what Chat is for. Okay, what would be the result of a different Roe v. Wade? Yes, I know the Court's demographics would make such an outcome impossible, but let's just handwave them for a moment. What would be...