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I was looking at the recent "Democratic Primaries '68" thread, and I was thinking about how humiliated Nixon would have been if he had lost a presidential election to a Kennedy twice. And that's how I came up with the idea for this AHC. Your challenge is to have Richard Nixon defeat two...

There's a poll coming. Inspired by RB's, JoeMulk's, and lounge60's threads... It's 1972, and the Vietnam War is in full rage. President Nixon, who is running for re-election, is running on a platform of Vietnamization, while Senator George McGovern, who narrowly won the Democratic primaries...

Yeah, you heard me right.:p The POD must be after January 1, 1979. I'll give you a cookie if he's elected as an Independent and two cookies if he's elected as the nominee of the Green Party. EDIT Just to clarify, I don't mean the awesome board member that's written Reds: A Revolutionary...

WELLSTONE'S WORLD An Alternate History “Wellstone's rise and decline to power is amazing. In fact, I think it was the most amazing phenomenon that has ever happened in American history. They say he shouldn't have been elected, and they were absolutely right. But that doesn't make it any...

Well, I'm back! I'm sorry I haven't updated my current Wellstone TL for a while, I just haven't had the time. Anyhow, I just had some other ideas about this, and I was thinking of rebooting this. Therefore, I present the public with three options on a Wellstone TL: 1. Wellstone 2000 - Very...

How could Africa as a continent end up more dystopian with a POD in the 1980s or 1990s?

So, I just now was looking at Wikipedia's article for the Nevada Senate Election in 2006, and I saw that Jimmy Carter's son, Jack Carter, was a Navy veteran and businessman when he ran for the U.S. Senate in Nevada in 2006. He won the Democratic nomination to oppose the incumbent Republican...

I was reading on Wiki that George McGovern publicly wanted to run for president in 1992, but he didn't, because of "family reasons." He said that if he ran, he would be "in to win," not just to "influence" the Democratic debate. So, what would be the effects of a McGovern presidential campaign...

At the Republican National Convention in 1968, there were talks about the presumptive nominee, Richard Nixon, choosing then-Congressman George Bush of Texas as his running mate. But instead, Nixon chose Governor Spiro Agnew. What if Nixon chose Bush as his running mate? Presuming that Nixon/Bush...

THE MAN WITH THE IRON HEART A Quick Introduction I just want to say: I'm going to have a LOT of fun with this.:D The book that got me interested in alternate history was How Few Remain, an AH novel by Harry Turtledove about the Confederates winning the American Civil War and about a second...

Inspired by Fear, Loathing, and Gumbo On the Campaign Trail '72, an excellent timeline by Drew... What if Barry Goldwater, Jr., then a Republican congressman from California, ran for Governor of California in OTL 1974? He would be up against Jerry Brown, so if he defeated him, that would be a...

In the spring of 1980, as Ted Kennedy and President Jimmy Carter fought for the Democratic nomination for president, there was a movement to have Ed Muskie nominated as a compromise candidate. So, here's my proposal: What if Kennedy did well enough to deadlock the DNC, giving Muskie a chance...

Two PODs involved here: 1) Spiro Agnew avoids the bribes as Governor of Maryland. His accepting those bribes led to his resignation from the vice presidency in October 1973, so if he had a "clean" governorship, he would not have resigned. 2) No Watergate, or as far as the public knows.;) So...

I debated putting this in ASB...:D Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to have Harry Turtledove elected President of the United States - with a twist. He still has to write at least five of his OTL Alt-hist books before he goes into politics. You get bonus points if his running mate...

In this thread, I would like to present three alternate scenarios for the United States Presidential Election of 1940: 1. The GOP nominates Herbert Hoover for president in 1940. I was reading on Wikipedia that there was some talk about the GOP nominating Herbert Hoover to run against FDR. There...

TO CHANGE THE WORLD A WELLSTONE LIVES TIMELINE - - - INTRODUCTION "October 25 was a good day for the campaign. Ted Kennedy had arranged to campaign in Minneapolis that day, and so we did. Then, I debated Norm Coleman that evening. I believe it was a victory for the campaign that...

In 1995, outgoing Democratic Pennsylvania Governor Bob Casey, Sr., considered challenging President Bill Clinton in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1996. However, he decided against it, because of bad health. But what if his health got better, and he ran for president? I'm sure that he...

FOR ALL WORDS Years of Flames v2.0 "For all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these: It might have been." - Excerpted from "Maud Muller," by John Greenleaf "Why did I drop Vice President Quayle? I'll tell you honestly: He was a liability to the campaign. Back in '88, I had...

So, WI Paul Wellstone survived his plane accident on Oct. 25, 2002, or otherwise avoided it? IOTL, he had originally been scheduled to campaign in Minneapolis with Ted Kennedy and debate Norm Coleman on the same day, but didn't do either because his friend Tom Rukavina's (now a member of the MN...

This is a fairly simple WI as far as the POD is concerned. In 2003, Bobby Jindal, today recognized as a likely presidential candidate for 2012, ran for Governor of Louisiana, won the Republican primary, but lost narrowly to Democrat Kathleen Blanco, who won 51% to Jindal's 48%. Jindal would be...