1992 election

I am working on the basics of a Mario Cuomo 1992 timeline - with the Governor, of course, running for the Presidency in 1992. I am not too concerned with how the Democratic Primary would play out, but I am very curious about who his running mate would be. A lot of folks seem to posit that Ann...

During the 1992 presidential debates, Ross Perot mentioned that should he be elected, he would only serve one term, saying and I quote: "If the American people send me up to do this job, I intend to be there one term. I do not intend to spend one minute of one day thinking about re-election."...

I've seen it becoming "common wisdom" that Tsongas would've lost in 1992, much like his own Governor, Mike Dukakis did in 1988; being painted by the Bush campaign as a "Massachussets Liberal" But Tsongas was moderate, more so then Dukakis, and on some issues even more so then Clinton...

The first big change in this scenario is that instead of picking Quayle as his running mate, Bush picks Jack Kemp instead. He was one of the finalists for the VP pick along with Bob and Elizabeth Dole, and it will bolster his credentials when he runs in 1996. It also gives Bush more credibility...

OTL, in 1988, Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts made a series of gaffes that led to him losing the 1988 Presidential Election to Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas. If those gaffes never happened or were slightly muted and Dukakis attacked Bush on Iran-Contra more, one...

Would he still win? If so, would he win reelection in 1992? What would the election of 1992 be like?

What if instead of Bill Clinton, his VP Al Gore was president during the 1990s? With the PoD presumably being that his son doesn’t get involved in a car accident. What would happen? What would be different? Who would be his running mate? Who would be in his cabinet? How well would his presidency...

MEMORY AWAKE; OR: THE GHOSTS OF THANH PHONG I'm very excited to present you with a short story in alternate history, a timeline in a week: Memory Awake; or: The Ghosts of Thanh Phong. While in The Other Place, I was playing around with different lists of presidents, and I found myself...

Let's say the Gennifer Flowers scandal tanks Clinton- forcing him out of the race before Iowa. Carville is brought on to the Wilder campaign and encourages him to throw all his eggs in the NH basket. He comes in a surprising second place showing a la Clinton. Jackson endorses Wilder, encouraging...

What if this in election scenario you have Democratic presidential nominee Jerry Brown who came in second place after Bill Clinton run as Independent? This might be a bit of unrealistic scenario but let's have this election the same with Bush, Clinton and Perot running but now with Jerry Brown...

So we know that Bush H.W. was elected in 1988 which was right around at the end of the Cold War and his administration led to the Gulf War in 1991 and to eventual defeat to Clinton in 1992 to where we get his son becoming president from 2000 and pretty much screwing the entire decade all because...

So I had this idea of a scenario, let's say instead of southerner Bill Clinton winning the party nomination, Jimmy Carter instead runs and somehow wins for alternate history sakes. And so, after winning, Carter then faces incumbent George H.W. Bush who already was unpopular due to recession and...

What if Michael Dukakis decided to run again in 1992? The situation for Bush 41 was already different than it was in '88. He already lost support among conservatives. Dukakis who in OTL retired from politics instead sees the opportunity and decides to take a one final shot in this election, by...

Let's say Bush 41 refuses to run for another term in 1992. As a result, you have a Republican primary with Pat Buchanan being candidate and possibly winning the primary. Bill Clinton wins the Democratic primary just like OTL. Ross Perot still joins race as an independent. How would the election...

I know that Ross Perot was different candidate compared to Clinton or Bush in '92 election and his voters were most likely to vote for Clinton as they were to Bush. But what is most realistic way can we have H.W. Bush replacing Dan Quayle with Ross Perot as V.P. around May-June 1992 when Perot...

OK, so Rev. Jesse Fucking Jackson. The best thing to come out of South Carolina since Mt. Rushmore. One of the U.S.'s best fucking Presidents, and not just because he became America's first AA leader just 24 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed. He and VP Ted Kennedy (RIP) did some...

In 1991, New York Governor Mario Cuomo famously dithered over whether or not to run for President in the upcoming Democratic primaries. Ultimately he decided not to run, claiming that New York's budget problems were too much of a distraction, and Bill Clinton was nominated instead. Had Cuomo...

As expected, the 1992 UK election resulted in a hung parliament with Labour holding the most seats. But what if John Major had been able to pull off an upset and the Tories had won in 1992?

Suppose that a Democrat is elected President in 1988. (It doesn't have to be Dukakis. It could be Gore, Gephardt, and anyone else who failed in the primaries or didn't run IOTL). Does Ross Perot still run for President in 1992 (or 1996 for that matter)? If so, does he run as an independent or as...

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, America has had five Presidents: 41. George H.W. Bush (1989-1993), R-TX 42. Mario Cuomo (1993-2001), D-NY 43. Al Gore (2001-2005), D-TN 44. John McCain (2005-2013), R-AZ 45. Barack Obama (Since 2013), D-IL In your opinion, which one was the best and why?