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(note -- please move to ASB?) Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are persuaded by alien space bats not to pursue the presidency. The OTL field remains: Christopher Dodd, Tom Vilsack, Joe Biden, John Edwards, Bill Richardson, Dennis Kucinich, Evan Bayh, and co. still run. Does anyone who didn't...

Dick Durbin, current Senate Majority Whip, and current Senator from Illinois since 1997, was considered on the long list of vice presidential candidates for Al Gore in 2000. What if he had been chosen? Would he have helped or hurt the ticket? How would he be perceived and/or portrayed? Who would...

South Dakota Senator and 1972 presidential candidate George Stanley McGovern doesn't lose his Senate seat in 1980 during the Reagan Revolution. Does he run again in 1986, 1992, etc? Does he remain in the Senate for the rest of his life or does he retire? If so, when? Does he lose re-election...

One of the things I struggle most with as a newbie to AltHistory is factoring in SCOTUS appointments. There's never 'frontrunners' for this sort of thing or campaigns, so you only really know who won usually - or the highest-profile losers. That said, I figured it'd be interesting to have a...

Spun off from a number of my previous threads... President McGovern and Any Democrat but Carter '76 primarily. The fascinating prospect of the two men who lost to Richard Nixon teaming up for a bit of a 'revenge ticket' upon his fall from grace. But yes, pretty simple thought and idea. How do...

Prevent the Iranian hostage crisis. What are the effects on the United States? Does Carter gain a stronger edge in 1980? Does Reagan seem weaker initially? Does the U. S. pursue (even if to fail) a stronger relationship with Iran?

RFK chooses not to enter the Democratic field in 1968, leaving the primaries to Eugene McCarthy and his challenge to LBJ and Hubert Humphrey. How far does McCarthy get? Can he snatch the nomination? If he doesn't, does he become the 1972 frontrunner? Can he defeat McGovern? How does he do...

This 'Anyone but...' thing is becoming an awkward trend. Without changing OTL prior to late 1974/early 1975, who could become the Democratic nominee besides Carter? Could somebody else win? And if they did win, with a Democrat-controlled congress, could they have accomplished more? Possibly...

National televised presidential debates in 1964, 1968 and 1972 between the major party candidates - I'm not sure if Wallace would be allowed to join. How would they shift the elections?

Simple question. If Kerry runs again in 2008, as was rumored for a time, how far would he get in the primaries? Is he completely blown away by the competition, or does he at least manage a so-so? Or does he somehow manage to become the nominee? How does he campaign differently? What could better...

Bob Dole's the Republican nominee in 1988. I'd prefer if we could say Bush didn't even run, but I don't have a POD so we can say he did. Does this change the bitter Democratic primaries somehow? How does he do against the eventual nominee? Who's his running mate? If he wins, what's his...

It's commonly cited that Obama could easily lose the 2004 Senate Election in Illinois if Jack Ryan's divorce controversy doesn't stir things up. I don't think that's the case myself - Illinois's been a pretty blue state in this age. The seat had been mostly blue in the past, held by Alan J...

I guess this isn't much of a challenge itself, so much as a curiosity to see people's scenario ideas in general, but I've always found it interesting to imagine ITOL tickets reversed. One of my very first personal ATL's involved a Johnson/Kennedy ticket in 1968 (I'm well aware now how impossible...

Ford chooses to forgo the party nomination in 1976 and allows Ronald Reagan to be the nominee instead. Who's Reagan's vice presidential running mate? By what margin does he win? How does he handle the economy? The Iran hostage crisis? Does he prevent the seemingly inevitable problems of the...

Script Treatment for "Godzilla 2" While the '98 remake of the classic monster flick was a profitable blockbuster, it didn't meet high studio expectations and while a sequel remained in planning, the idea ultimately fell out of favor within a year or two of release. Despite the unpopularity of...

Kind of an oddly specific-WI but... what if Nixon handed over the unedited tapes and/or transcripts when originally asked, rather than calling on executive privilege and withholding them, or having to go through 18 1/2 minute gap thing, etc? Would he be given a little more credit? Or would it...

Adlai Stevenson was famously nominated by the Democrats in 1952 and 1956. Similarly, Thomas E. Dewey was nominated in 1944 and 1948 against two different presidents. Richard M. Nixon lost in 1960 but came back in 1968 and won re-election in 1972. Scenarios like this are pretty much impossible...

The obvious is that Washington does not survive. That's not really what I'd like to know. What I'd like to know is how does this affect the presidency in the long term - does 'three terms' become the same kind of limit two terms is OTL? Or does it become an office you can serve until death...

Let's say Kennedy is voted out in 1964 or term-limited in 1968... How long does his natural life keep him? How much does he age? Does he have a successful post-presidency? What causes does he remain behind? How strongly does he support his designated successor in 1968? (Assumable Humphrey, or...

I did not title this "Gore Wins" because this simply isn't about Gore's fate. The question is what becomes of George Bush. Does he continue serving as Governor of Texas? Does he go back to the private sector? Does he try to make another bid? How does the GOP remember him? Etc. etc.