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As it says on the tin, what would happen if five years later Brown went to the polls in 2007 and won a fourth consecutive yet slim Labour victory? Brown would face the blunt of being the party of government for 15 years, having a recession under his leadership, with a sure defeat come 2012. Just...

As it says right up there in the title, your goal today is to make the Iraq War much much more popular than it was in real life. Not much to elaborate on here. Bonus points if you can get a majority of Americans favoring the war after the matter. Double bonus points if you can make politicians...

After the First World War Prime Minister David Lloyd George decided to continue the coalition with Bonar Law's Conservatives, while leaving dissatisfied Liberals led by H.H. Asquith to be separate of Lloyd George's party causing a schism. In the end the Conservatives made massive gains while the...

As it says on the tin, what would the effects have been if there had not been a Con-Lib coalition government after the 2010 uk election? Let's say the Tories draw a tad more from Labour and set up either a majority government or a government along with either the DUP or UUP. How would this...

The challenge for you all today folks is to keep the entity known as Yugoslavia a whole country without the separatist violence it had OTL. The goal here should be: Have Yugoslavia survive as a sovereign nation with its Cold War borders intact. Keep it as stable as possible without awful...

Hello all, this is a short discussion question, but: what if Britain had joined the European Exchange Rate Mechanism in 1979 when it was first introduced as opposed to during the Major years? As I recall, they did not do so because Denis Healey was against the idea at the time when Labour was in...

The question today is whether or not a moderate Conservative "Gang of Four", preferably during the rise of Thatcherism and Powellism, that allied with the Liberal Party would have a greater success overall than OTL's SDP-Liberal Alliance? Some things to consider: 1. How much better would they...

Hello, as it says in the title, the question today is other than the childless, cliche George Washington, who would have been a good candidate to head an American monarchy? Maybe someone from a prominent family with some war recognition like the Lee family? Or could another successful general...

With any PoD after 1900, your goal is to create a stronger movement of African American conservatism in the Republican Party. Bonus points if you can successfully elect people such as Ben Carson or Herman Cain to a state-wide office. :D

Hello AH.commers, today your challenge is to make Toronto Mayor Rob Ford the Conservative Prime Minister of Canada. You may do this however you like, but strong changes to Ford's character and personality is frowned upon.

As it says on the tin, wank the U.S. Libertarian Party to the best possible extent. This includes the local, state, and national level. Bonus points if you can have them participate with the debates and have at least some presence in Congress.

In honor of you-know-who Day, make the South as progressive as possible with a POD after 1964 in terms of social progress and economic progress. How you do this is your choice, but you are not allowed to make major demographic changes from OTL to the South.

Something I've pondered about for a while: how does politics in the South change after survival of the Civil War? As I see it, most politicians at the time were essentially independents under a Democratic label, overall falling into the loose categorization of "Pro-Davis/Anti-Davis". It's likely...

Today I was looking up the first presidential election to look at the electoral votes and I noticed something interesting. Apparently because he thought that Adams and Washington were going to get even number of votes and embarrass the Contitution, Hamilton schemed to get other electors to vote...

As it says, PoD is that Theodore Roosevelt doesn't go on the expedition into Brazil in 1913. The expedition arguably weakened his health, nearly killing him even, and after it he never was the same as before. So, he never goes to Brazil and stays in the US. How does this effect his lifespan...

Hello everyone, the challenge here today is to have more elections where Presidents win the Electoral vote, but lose the popular vote to his opponent. There has been three times this has happened in American history: 1876, 1888, and, of course, 2000. I know this is the pre-1900 forum, but you...

This has been a question I've thought about recently, what would have happened if instead of accepting the American Independent nomination Wallace had joined the Democratic primary in 1968? So Wallace decides that instead of taking a chance with a pretty much unknown political party, he takes...

As many of you know, the 1980 Presidential Election was one of the more closer elections between President Jimmy Carter and Governor Ronald Reagan. While Carter initially held a huge led in early 1980, the worsening economy led to Reagan creeping up in the polls. However Carter was able to free...

Talking about the United States, how would electoral votes be given for states that are not under U.S. Control? I don't think this ever happened in American history, the closest was in 1812 I believe. How would electors decide their vote if a state has no popular vote, or would it not count at all?

With a POD of the 1950s, your goal is to have an incumbent President Barry Goldwater trump Lyndon Baines Johnson in a Presidential election. Preferably in the 1964 election, also bonus points if Goldwater manages to paint Johnson as a Anti-Civil rights war-monger, threatening to bring the world...