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The main thing I'm wondering with this thought experiment, is what happens in Quebec during the French Revolutionary Wars, and what happens between Quebec, the USA, and France if the Quasi-War still occurs and turns into a formally declared war between the USA and France? So for the sake of...

Immediately after winning the 1940 election, during the lame duck period, FDR issues an Executive Order similar to Truman's EO 9981, which ends segregation in the Armed Services. So how does this affect the war? What are the political ramifications of this action? And how does this affect the...

Same targets as the 9/11/2001 attacks but more than a year after it happened in the OTL. So what happens if the attacks of 9/11 took place on 11/11/2002 instead, 6 days after the US midterm elections?

I had an idea for a timeline a few months ago where there were more free states during the Constitutional Convention than OTL. It was a bit of an Ameriwank, where Canada, St. John's Island, and Nova Scotia ended up with the new US by the time the Revolution ended. Also, borrowing an idea from...

Say Reagan narrowly defeated Ford in the Republican primary that year instead of the narrow loss of OTL, and he was also able to beat Carter in a very close race. Who does he appoint to head the Federal Reserve when Arthur Burns steps down in early 1978? Carter originally appointed G. William...

Assume Gore wins the 2000 election and is re-elected in 2004, while Republicans narrowly control the Senate during his entire Presidency. Who could he realistically get appointed when Chief Justice Rehnquist passes away in 2005? Does he name that brand new member Chief Justice or give that...

What if Teddy Roosevelt was able to beat Taft for the Republican nomination in 1912, and with the Progressive takeover of the Republican convention he nominates Hiram Johnson as his running mate. Basically he starts earlier and puts in a bigger effort to get into a position to win, and to get...

There are two changes to the OTL to get this match up. The first is that Jim McGreevey doesn't meet Golan Cipel on his trip to Israel, so he never has an affair with him, and never hires him as a security adviser, and the whole thing doesn't come out causing him to resign. McGreevey keeps his...

I'm working on an idea for a timeline where Canada joins the Revolution, along with St. Johns Island and possibly Novia Scotia. In addition to these new states present at the drafting of the Constitution, I also have Georgia remaining a free state up until that time. With the slave states at an...

POD: Ronald Reagan dies of stroke in December, 1986. George H.W. Bush becomes President, finishes Reagan's term, and wins a term of his own in 1988 against Michael Dukakis. By 1992 he is ineligible to run again due to term limits. So who runs for the Democratic and Republican nominations in...

I'm working on a new idea for a timeline, and it involves McCain barely winning the 2008 Presidential election after the two term Bush Presidency. I'm not getting into who the Democratic candidate was, or what happened, but let me just say it wasn't Obama. One other big difference is that the...

Suppose John McCain won in 2008, who would he pick for his cabinet? I don't want to get into how he won, or who he won against, I just need some ideas to help with a possible timeline I'm working on. I'm thinking Phil Gramm may play a role, as he was his top economic advisor during the campaign...

Here is the setup for this timeline: 1. 1961: Diem's brother dies in an accident, and the regime doesn't crack down on Buddhists as harshly. 2. 1962: George Romney loses that close election for Governor to the incumbent Swainson who wins re-election in 1964 and 1966. George Romney never runs...

I've read that Anne Boleyn had a defect that prevented her from successfully giving birth to more than one child, so what if instead of giving birth to Elizabeth she gave birth to Edward VI? Does Henry VIII try to get rid of her when she can't give him any more children, or does giving him an...

The Tea Party was able to upset several establishment Republican candidates during the 2010 Republican primaries. And while some of their candidates did go on to win in the general election, they also cost the Republican party several winnable seats by nominating unelectable candidates in blue...

I'd like to see at least 4 major political parties in the U.S. (meaning they each get at least 15-30% of the vote) that represent the 4 cross-sections of personal liberty and economic liberty. I'll be using the terms liberal and conservative as they are currently used in the U.S. to describe...

I'm thinking of a timeline where either Kerry does better in the campaign, Bush does worse, or a combo of both, so that Kerry and the Democrats get a 1.30% increase in the vote, while Bush and the Republicans get a 1.30% decrease in the vote. Kerry wins the popular vote 60,628,444 to 60,440,610...

Looking at the 2008 Senate election in Georgia recently made me think about this race in Louisiana back in 2004. Louisiana is also one of those rare states that require a Senator win a majority of the vote to take office. In Georgia 2008, Chambliss got 49.8% in the general, forcing a run off...

With a POD after 1900, have both Teddy and FDR as President for 4 Presidential terms each. They don't have to be consecutive terms, and they don't have to serve all 4 terms in full. Also, have them both do it as Republicans for the entire time they are President.

So this has two parts. The first is whether it was possible for the British to gain the Rio de la Plata region from Spain during, or as part of a treaty after, the Seven Years' War? Maybe the British East India company was more prepared or got the element of surprise and put up a much bigger...