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  1. Holy Roman Empire, Batman

    Dang. I thought the comma was a typo and assumed this thread was going to be about a Batman-like character arising in the Holy Roman Empire. :(

  2. Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes

    How did the Constitution Party survive for 80 years as a major party without ever winning the Presidency? It seems like they'd either fall apart and get replaced by a party that could win or change position slightly to pick up some Democrats.

  3. AHC: Two Rivals Battle It Out

    Another possibility: Reagan decides to run for a third term as California governor in 1974, deciding he can still run for President in 1976 even in the middle of his term. He defeats Jerry Brown, but by a narrower margin than he had over Unruh four years earlier. Brown then wins the...

  4. AHC: Two Rivals Battle It Out

    Okay, let's say the 1960 Presidential election goes differently. Maybe Nixon doesn't look as bad in the debate or Kennedy doesn't handle his religion as well. Kennedy still wins the popular vote, but the votes are distributed differently and Nixon manages to win the electoral college. Democrats...

  5. WI: Sylvester Stallone as a Politician?

    About all we can tell from that is that he "loved" Ronald Reagan and that he believes in American exceptionalism. Not a lot to go on. Also, a few people have mentioned his speech impediment. This is because of a freak accident during his birth which messed up one of his nerves. The result was...

  6. WI: Sylvester Stallone as a Politician?

    Yeah, but since the Rockefeller types were the moderate wing of the Republican party for so long, it sort of became synonymous with "moderate" in the popular lexicon. Actually, Stallone seems to be the exact opposite of a Rockefeller Republican. Generally Rockefeller Republicans were...

  7. WI: Clinton was in office during 9/11?

    One more thing to consider: If Clinton is still in office on 9/11 he may very well die of a massive heart attack. He was in bad health towards the end of his second term in OTL. Poor diet coupled with the stress that comes with the Presidency had his doctors very worried. After he left office...

  8. Alternate Electoral Maps

    Fair enough. Shows how fast things change when elections are this close. :)

  9. Alternate Electoral Maps

    Well that explains Virginia, but Nate Silver has Colorado in the Romney column (50.5% chance as of this post). Also, on a side note, I've been a bit more wary about trusting Nate Silver's prognostications since I read this article. Granted it's from the rather conservative National Review, but...

  10. Alternate Electoral Maps

    Interesting concept, but quick question: Why are you showing Virginia and Colorado for Obama? Romney's up in 3 out of the 4 most recent major polls in Virginia (granted, the average is still a tie since Obama is ahead by a such a significant margin in that one poll, but still), and 3 out of 5 in...

  11. WI: Sylvester Stallone as a Politician?

    But he's never lived there. He'd be a total carpetbagger.

  12. WI: Sylvester Stallone as a Politician?

    He was born and grew up in New York, but as far as I know he hasn't lived there in years. It would be like if Reagan ran in Illinois. He wasn't from there any more. He was a Californian. Yeah, that would be a problem if he ran for something statewide. But if we're just talking about some...

  13. WI: Sylvester Stallone as a Politician?

    Well, I'll have to take your word for it as I haven't seen it. Still, the fact that it was at the time branded as porn and marketed as such will create the perception of it being something worse whether it is or not.

  14. WI: Sylvester Stallone as a Politician?

    Yeah, the problem isn't going to be his intelligence. He's not Albert Einstein, but he's every bit as smart as the average politician <insert joke about that being a very low bar here> His problem is going to be what Michel Van alluded to earlier, namely, that he was in pornography. I know...

  15. wierdest, obcure countries in history?: odd nations that we forgot

    This might not be quite obscure enough for what you're looking for, but I'll get the ball rolling: The Duchy of Courland and Semigallia - a small vassal of the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth. Sort of a proto-Latvia but with a German ruling class. Also, in one of the most AH sounding things ever...

  16. WI: Sylvester Stallone as a Politician?

    While Stallone was always a Republicans, he really wasn't politically active for most of his life. That really only began after his infant daughter had heart problems in 1996. This event had a profound impact on him and led him to religion and eventually some limited political activism. So if...

  17. Slavery in the CSA

    1890s if the country lasts that long.

  18. Washington's Third Term

    What it says on the tin. What if George Washington had run for and won a third term? Assuming of course that his death in 1799 is butterflied away (not hard, the circumstances surrounding his death were rather weird) and that he lives long enough to finish it. Note that he probably wouldn't...

  19. Alternate Electoral Maps

    A map of the 1968 election if George Wallace wins every state where he was within 10 points in OTL. Nixon still wins, but just barely. Also, depending on who he draws his votes from, Nixon may have lost the popular vote. Former Vice President Richard Nixon / Governor Spiro Agnew 270 Vice...

  20. Alternate Electoral Maps

    Alternate 1856 Presidential election. Basically, Franklin Pierce through some slightly better than OTL political maneuvering manages to hang on to the Democratic nomination, presumably by working out some sort of deal with Stephen Douglas. The Republicans meanwhile, nominate John McLean and...
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