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Challenge: Make John S. McCain III win the Presidential election, with a POD no earlier than January 1, 2008. It can be as narrow as you want. What would be the effects?

With a POD no earlier than 1950, have Marcos not be the President of the Philippines in '66. No assassinations - that would make it too easy...

You challenge, with a POD no earlier than 1957, is for the Supreme Court to rule against McCorvey or similar defendant in similar case, and to ascertain the repercussions therefrom.

Your challenge, with a POD no later than 1850, is to make Spanish the day-to-day language (that is, used in government, in the schools and in business, though not necessarily in the markets) of the Philippines in 100 years. A bilingual situation is acceptable. Bonus points if the majority of the...

What if this was what appeared on the Honolulu Advertiser of August 13, 1961? In other words, what would history be like if the Obamas had a daughter instead of a son?

The infamous Columbine killers had originally intended to blow up the Columbine High School cafeteria and library. In OTL, their bombs failed to go off, and they instead killed as many students as they could with guns. What if they built a better bomb, something not a dud? What if, instead of...

Last night everything's normal, but now everything's... strange... for one thing, why is a Negro President of the United States? I'm not racist or anything, but this is strange... and this notebook-typewriter thing... I'm not really getting the hang of it...

Let's say that, for some reason or another, the trial is held in Los Angeles, rather than Ventura County - given the demographics of the former, a guilty verdict would have been almost certain. Does the social tension in LA simply erupt at a later time, or what? What does this mean for race...

In OTL, if she and the Prince of Wales did consumate the marriage, no children resulted from it. What if instead she gets pregnant, but Arthur dies per OTL, and the child of the union, a son, is born in August of 1502 (let's call him, I dunno, Edward). What happens to the succession? Does...

In OTL, he backed out the next day, eventually consecrating four bishops without the Holy See's consent, and ended up excommunicated. Would the changes in Summorum Pontificum or Ecclesia Dei have occured earlier if he had agreed to JPII's and Ratzinger's demands? What would the Church have...

(OOC: This is a DBWI on a Philippines where the EDSA movement failed. POD is that Artemio Tadiar, in command of the troops facing the protesters, obeys orders and fires into the crowds, dispersing them. Major parties: KBL (New Society Movement): Basically corporatist, conservative and not...

OOC: Based on the other election threads, except Weimar-style, where the Nazis never formed a government. The main players in the old Reichstag: The Government: A coalition of the Social Democrats, the Greens, and the DDP, Robert Lehmann's government has been in power for the past ten years...

As a USC student, I think that one of our most distinguished professors was the aforementioned Nixon. He once said that after his stint in Congress, he briefly considered a Senate run, maye even the Presidency. So, what do you think would have resulted from a Nixon Administration?