1984 election

IOTL Democratic nominee and former VP Walter Mondale lost in a landslide to the popular President Ronald Reagan. Using the powers of alternate history, have Mondale defeat Reagan, somehow.

TEACH YOUR PARENTS - A WALTER MONDALE 1984 TIMELINE BASIC PODS: Reagan fires Volcker appoints Greenspan to chair the Federal Reserve in 1980. The economy doesn’t recover like it does OTL, because the Early 1980s recession, having levels of unemployment nationally of 15%, roughly 5% higher...

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In 1984, Colorado Senator Gary Hart upset former Vice-President Walter Mondale to become the Democratic nominee for President. Reagan's team had hoped to face Mondale, who performed far worse in public opinion polling than Hart. Nonetheless, Reagan put up a tough fight against Hart - emphasizing...

So as well know, the 1984 election was pretty much interesting since the electoral map shows every state red except the big Minnesota which was Mondale's homestate who he won by thin margin. But is there a way that Reagan could've won that state as well by a bit bigger margin? This might be a...

Throughout President Reagan’s first term the economy was struggling and still hadn’t recovered from the malaise of the 70’s, sharply plumeting from 1981-1983 and causing massive losses for the GOP during the 1982 midterms and causing Reagan’s favorability rating to fall to a historic 35%! Is it...

Today, Gary Hart is mostly remembered for the infamous Donna Rice affair that torpedoed his 1988 Presidential candidacy. But he previously ran in 1984, and came close to defeating Walter Mondale for the Democratic nomination. What if Hart had been nominated instead? Would the result have been...

Ted Kennedy was originally the Frontrunner for the 1984 Democratic nomination, but he was convinced by his family not to run. This was in 1982 when Reagan was widely unpopular and expected to be a one term President. What if Kennedy decided to challenge Reagan? Would he have lost 49 states like...

So President Carter had a tough first term in office, only barely beating former California Governor and Actor Ronald Reagan due to Carter securing the release of the Hostages after the "October Surprise" came out where it was revealed the Reagan campaign was colluding with the Iranians to hold...

With any POD after his nomination as Democratic candidate, somehow have Walter Mondale win a landslide victory over President Ronald Reagan in the 1984 US election. Not necessarily as electorally one-sided as OTL, but with a wide Mondale lead in the popular and electoral votes.

I know that this site can often get annoyed at questions about convergent history, but I'll ask this anyway. If Gary Hart edges out Mondale for the Democratic nomination and likely goes on to still lose to Reagan by a decent margin, does the Democratic Leadership Council still come into play to...

By my count there are five and a half winnable Senate races. The scenario is simple: with the economy doing worse and/or a big Reagan screw-up of whatever sort, Reagan tumbles to his OTL January 1983 low of 35% a few months earlier ITTL during early November right at the 1982 midterms. This is...

For a TL i'm writing, which involves butterflying away Reagan's election in 1980 (ITTL, he never even sought the nomination that election cycle), I'm hoping to get some insight on a few things about a potential Jack Kemp Presidency. Who would be a likely VP choice for Kemp? What would his...

From 1969 to 1977, Ed Koch served as a US Congressman from New York, and then as Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. In 1982, he ran for Governor of New York but lost the primary to then-lieutenant governor Mario Cuomo. Let's say he managed to win in '82, and then went on to run for...