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What can the police do? POD # 1 Get rid of Mark Fuhrman. During the 80s, he sued the LAPD in order to get a disability pension. Have him win. During the Simpson trail, a colleague said, that after he married a Jewish women, Fuhrman painted swastikas on his locker. Fuhrman denied it, but if it...

What if Ben Carson's political career begins with the 2009 Prayer Breakfast. I would use one of my favorite 2012 PODs. Jeb Bush runs. He and Romney split the establishment vote. Carson becomes the conservative candidate. He wins a solid victory in Iowa and then South Carolina. He wins the OTL...

The first POD is that Paul V. McNutt, during his tenure as High Commissioner of the Philippines 1937-1939, persuades Congress to fully fund the Filipino Military. The second POD happens in early November 1941. An American Military Attache, who is visiting the Japanese Ministry of the Navy, finds...

What if Puerto Rico had not voted for statehood in 1993? In 2000, Puerto Rico provided the Electoral College margin of victory for President Gore. If Puerto Rico's 7 electoral votes were not there and the House of Representatives had not been enlarged, Bush would have won a 271 to 267 victory...

On November 22, 1963, Arnold Rowland looked up at a window in the sixth floor of Texas School Book Depository and saw a silhouette with a rifle. He told his wife look there is a Secret Service Agent. What if he could see that Oswald was wearing a white t shirt and he knew that Secret Service...

I read today that TR would have preferred to name Root as his successor but did not do so because he had been a corporate lawyer. What if he overlooked that and endorsed him in 1908? How progressive would Root have been? Would he have pleased TR ? Does TR endorse him in 1912 and allow him to...

Montgomery blamed the bad weather, but with his ego can he be trusted?

If Tsongas won the Democratic nomination in 1992., he would have won the general election in those bad economic times. He would not have enjoyed Clinton's Southern support. He would not carry Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky. He would have won the other Clinton states and he...

What is the earliest plausible date and circumstances for the US to enter World War II?

The POD is a massive hurricane strikes New Orleans in August 2004. He ends the war in Iraq. He does not have good coattails, so there is still a Republican Congress in 2005 -2007 and with a Democrat in the White House, 2006 is not a good Democratic year. With an unfriendly Congress, he cannot...

I am reading the book Days of Fire Bush and Cheney in the White House. It goes back much further than that. It said in 1992, George W. Bush advised his father to dump Quayle and replace him with Dick Cheney. What if he had followed his son's advice instead of rewarding Quayle's loyalty. I think...

At Pittsburg Landing, Grant takes seriously the signs of a Confederate attack and orders his troops to prepare. When the Confederates attack the Union troops drive them back. After the Victory at Shiloh, the Union military makes Vicksburg the priority. The siege of Vicksburg begins in late...

That is what future Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes yelled at Abraham Lincoln on July 12, 1864. He did not recognize the president. Just thought it was some stupid civilian. Lincoln wanted to see the battle at Ft, Stevens and he stood up to get a close look. What if Holmes warning...

The Iranians don't take over the US Embassy until November 11, 1979. That means that day 365 of the hostage crisis happens a week after election day 1980. Reagan popular vote margin is reduced to 46,2 % to Carter's 44.5 % and Anderson's 7,6 %. Carter carries Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode...

On January 6, 1853, the train carrying President Elect Franklin Pierce, his wife and son crashed. His son was tragically killed but Mr, and Mrs Pierce survived. What if the President Elect had been killed? The Vice President Elect William King had a terminal illness. OTL he died on April 18...

Abraham Lincoln was President Seward's main competitor for the 1860 Republican Nomination. He went on to be Seward's Attorney General and Chief Justice from 1864 until his death in 1881. What if he won the nomination and then won the election? He was known for his excellent political skills...

Before the Battle of Shiloh there were indications of a Confederate attack. Grant preoccupied with his plans for an attack disregarded them What if he had paid attention and had his troops prepare for the attack. When the Confederates charge out of the woods, they do not surprise the Yankees...

What if Puerto Rico had not voted for statehood in 1993? Then President Gore would have lost the 2000 election. What kind of president would George W. Bush have been? As governor he had a record of working accross party lines. ITTL be like John Quincy Adams and Rutherford B Hayes would have...

What if the decision had gone the other way? How would American politics have been different in the last five years? As for the POD, I will use the least complicated and least controversial of my many liberal Supreme Court TLs. In 1967, Earl Warren decides to retire. Johnson nominates...

The first POD comes in 1986. When Ronald Reagan elevates William Rehnquist to Chief Justice, he names Robert Bork to replace him as Associate Justice. After a bitter debate the Republican Senate narrowly approves Bork. The second POD is Reagan's selection of Antonin Scalia to replace Lewis...