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IOTL, Arizona Senator John McCain, who lost the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000 but won it in 2008, only to be defeated by Barack Obama, first considered running for President of the United States in 1996. However, he declined to. So, what if Sen. McCain decides to jump...

Hugh Gaitskell was a leader of the right-wing in the Labour Party during the 1959 general election. Although Labour was expected to win a majority in Parliament, they were divided over economic issues, and were thus defeated by the Conservatives. Inspired by an idea in the "Timeline with the...

What do you think is the one POD after 1900 that has the most potential? By which I mean, which POD makes the most interesting changes to the world? Also, if you can, no cliches. While the assassination of Franz Ferdinand being averted is an extremely rich POD, its likely the first one that...

THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART An AWESOME example of Alternate History. An Introduction This is Version 2.0 of my timeline, The Man With the Iron Heart. However, it is more of a reboot, because everything I have in this post is actually copy-pasted from...

Hello Before 1900 Forum! Long time since I posted here!:p Now, here's the situation: I'm currently writing a timeline called The Butterfly Lies Heavy in the Post-1900 forum. And even though it's in Post-1900, I need help from all of you. You see, later in my timeline, alternate history is...

Prologue Update Soundtrack From the Diaries of Jack McCain January 4 2031 Today was an exciting day – I got a new job, working for Meg! I was at work in the office at 11:30, and I was just about to leave for lunch when Meg called, asking if I wanted to have lunch...

Well, here it is! The Official Pre-TL thread for my upcoming timeline, The Butterfly Lies Heavy. You know anything is going to be epic when it has a discussion thread before it comes out. Now, about the actual timeline: My original idea for the POD was the much-observed assassination of...

Yeah, that's right, another one of these threads.:p Anyhow, you heard the title: Your challenge is to post the most "interesting" lists of U.S. Presidents you think possible. Take "interesting" however you want - in the dystopian sense, the utopian sense, the awesome-in-general sense, etc. as...

Exactly what it says on the tin. Your challenge is to make it happen, and then predict what would happen. Would the Libertarian Revolution be somewhat-successful or no? And yes, before anyone asks, I'm 100% positive that Paul would not defeat Bush in the primaries.:p

Not Too Funny To Be President Not Too Funny To Be President April 6, 1976: The people of Wisconsin go to the voting booths statewide to vote on their party's nominee. The political watchmen waited in suspense after the vote count came in, for the situation in both parties was climactic. In...

So I was playing a board game recently called Ideology: The War of Ideas, in which you play one of five political ideologies (Capitalism, Imperialism, Communism, Fascism, and Islam). For the fun of it, I played Islam. Now the objective of Ideology is to influence a number of nations by your...

Well, as you guys can probably tell, my timeline Every Man A King (the link is in my sig) is basically dead as it is. However, the concept and the general TL is not dead. As I just said in another thread, I'm planning to use a different POD for this TL, one that is much more popularly...

IOTL, Theodore Roosevelt, the POTUS from 1901 - 1909 and the Progressive Party nominee for President in 1912, died in 1919 at the age of 60. It was rumored that he was planning to run for President once again in 1920. TR's cause of death was a preventable one - malaria, which he had contracted...

What it says on the tin. You may use whichever POD you like. Good luck.;)

The POD is that Howard Dean resigns the Democratic National Committee Chairmanship in December 2006, and in January 2007 announces that he will run for POTUS again in 2008. What will happen?

Every Man A King: A Timeline “God, don't let me die. I have so much left to do.” - Huey Long just after being shot, Sept. 8 1935 "The assassination attempt on Huey's life occurred on September 8, 1935. On that day, Huey was trying to 'oust' Henry Pavey, an...

So, WI Huey Long was not assassinated in Sept. '35 and challenged Roosevelt for the Democratic nomination?

Inspired by the Kerry 2008 thread, what do you think might have happened if Al Gore had gone for a rematch with President GWB in 2004? After all, as we all remember, there was a movement to get him to run. IIRC, there were even clever bumper stickers that said, "Re-elect Gore in 2004.":p

The Game: A Timeline "In Washington, senators and congressmen talk of politics as a game, and of themselves as 'players.' To be a player is to have some power or influence on some issue. Not to be a player is to be out of the power loop and without influence." - The Power Game by Hedrick...

Your challenge is to make the counterculture movement of the '60s and '70s very conservative rather than very, very liberal. You cannot have a POD any earlier than Jan. 1, 1955.