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Al Gore, Bill Clinton's Vice President, narrowly lost the 2000 Election to Texas Governor and Son of 41st President George Herbert Walker Bush, George Walker Bush. However, in an alternate world, what if Gore defeated Bush and then served two terms as President, defeating Arizona Senator John...

Last One for the Gipper Ronald Reagan and His Quest for a Third Term An Alternate History Timeline by Vidal This timeline is loosely inspired by the first American political timeline I read on this site: 1988: Defending the Reagan Revolution and a New Democratic Hope. The POD is much the same...

Assume that somehow Al Gore manages to win the 1988 Democratic primary instead of Michael Dukakis. Who would he select as a running mate? Would his nomination alter George H.W. Bush’s campaign, and in particular his own selection of Dan Quayle as a running mate? Who else might be chosen if not...

Hello! This is another attempt of mine to start and, more importantly, finish a timeline. I like this idea and am excited about doing it, and I hope you all will share that feeling with me. Just to get this out of the way, my goal is to have an update for this posted once a week, most likely on...

On November 7th, 2000, John McCain beat Al Gore, becoming the 43rd president of the United States and the first president from Arizona. He had faced a tough primary against John Kasich, and an even more difficult campaign in the general election, but ultimately prevailed despite a good economy...

August 18th, 1991 FLASH MOSCOW, USSR - SEVERAL SOVIET OFFICIALS MISSING, PRESUMED DEAD AFTER PLANE CRASH IN UKRAINE [1] New York Times - August 21st, 1991 NEW SOVIET UNION TREATY SIGNED "Yesterday, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev attended the signing of a new Union Treaty, designed to...

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...

(So, this is kind of a redo of this (https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-clinton-resigned-in-1999-a-collaborative-tl.525542/), but at the same time, it's not? While this was partly inspired by that, it's deliberately supposed to be a "worst-case scenario"-type thread for the year...

(Following the success of my first collab TL, which is still in progress, (you can check it out here: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-the-beatles-died-in-1964-a-collaborative-tl.525360/), I figured I'd make another one, and it's about a much more recent even that could've gone...

An Convenient Truth Presidency of Albert Gore Jr. 1988 Democratic Primaries: On April 11, 1987, Senator Gore of Tennessee announced his candidacy. Gore's campaign was 39 years old making his the youngest serious candidate for the White House since JFK. In contrast to JFK, Gore was a southern...

Al Gore Senator of Tennessee elected in 1984, and previously served in the Congress and a Vietnam War veteran. In 1988 he was a Southern Conservative Democrat who opposed federal funding abortion and seemed to set himself up as a counter to the wide arrange of liberal Democrats like Michael...

On December 16th 2002 Former Vice President Al Gore appeared on 60 Minutes saying that he was still unsure about a 2004 Presidential run and he and his wife Tipper would think about it and make a decision early next year. In March 2003 Gore would start a presidential exploratory committee to...

For a Better America 1996 Republican National Convention ----------------------------------------------------------------- Point of Divergence When the previous fiscal year ended on September 30, 1995, the Democratic president and the Republican-controlled Congress had not passed a budget. A...

“Now we can’t say that the aircraft has even crashed. We don’t know that. What we do know, it’s been missing now for quite a long time, because it was due to arrive in Martha’s Vineyard--according to the best available information--sometime before midnight last night. So it has been missing on...

one of the most controversial decisions by the Gore administration was the Iraq war in 2003. we could understand why the Gore administration would have launched the war, as they were out of options when Airstrikes did nothing to achieve its goals. and democratic establishment's support for the...

"A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers." - President John F. Kennedy Hello all. Through my four years on this site (and many more years of lurking), I've never actually made a thread dedicated to a timeline of mine. In...

BREAKING- Prime Minister injured in London Bomb Attack - BBC News - 26th June 1999 The Prime Minister Tony Blair and several other people have been badly injured in a bomb attack presumed to be targeting him in London. The bombing is reported to have happened near Aldgate Tube station, and...

POD: The hijackers die in a car crash. September 11, 2001: Comes and goes like any other day. November 12, 2001: The nation is shocked by the deadliest aviation disaster since 1979 when American flight 587 crashes in New York killing 265 people and one dog. December 2, 2001: Enron files for...

Let's say in this alternate 2000 election, Jack Kemp, a long recognized Republican decides to run and secures the Republican presidential primary, thus becoming a candidate to face off Al Gore? How would he have performed? Could he had beaten Gore? Keep in mind, Kemp is native to the...

In the run up to the 1988 US Presidential Election, New Jersey Senator and former New York Knicks player Bill Bradley was widely considered a serious contender for POTUS. However, he ultimately declined to run stating that he "would know when he was ready." Bradley then served in the US Senate...