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I made the assumption (same as reality until 1952)： 1953-1961: Adlai Stevenson II 1961-1963: John F. Kennedy 1963-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson 1969-1977: Hubert Humphrey 1977-1985: George McGovern 1985-1993: Walter Mondale 1993-2001: Tom Harkin 2001-2009: Bill Bradley 2009-2017: Barack Obama...

I suppose this is kind of a general question but considering the immense amount of American third party candidates that tried to run for president, I just want to know. Which third party presidential candidate from the past century actually succeeding and becoming president (however unlikely...

What would be the electoral consequences of a Kaiserreich-like scenario in Germany? How would the Reichstag elections develop after WW1 en further into the future? Will there be a united conservative people’s party composed of the traditional conservative Deutschkonservatieve Partei (DKP) and...

STORM BEFORE THE CALM: Prologue: the epiphany of a peanut. December 4th, 1979 The President of the United States fumbled with his tie in frustration, his thoughts clearly clouded by his emotions. James Earl Carter had been known as a kind, calm, and warm figure to most Americans. But anyone...

As we already know, the 1965 election was supposed to have taken place, had there not been the 1964 coup or if Castelo Branco had had a strong grip on maintaining its decision, but as it is an alternative universe, the elections would not have been impeded, and the candidates would have launched...

Hello person, well, this is my first trend in AH, and to start I decided to make a series of trends about the Brazilian presidential election of 1989, where Collor was elected, but as it is about alternative history, I decided to put to debate how it would be if other candidates had been elected...

1966 Elections – Part 1 In the midterms of 1966, all 435 seats of the House and 50 of the 150 seats of the Senate will be contested, in an election considered by the country as a referendum of President John Kennedy (Lib-MA), following his successful re-election in the runoff in 1964...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stubbs_(cat) This is a series of maps from a world where a Silicon Valley Tech Firm codes an AI that goes on to become the first sentient AI, and believes its a "continuation" so to speak of the above listed Alaskan Cat. It's currently 1am where I am, but I'll be...

So something that I wonder is if Benjamin Harrison winning in 1892 would result in a Populist Democrat winning the 1896 Election. How likely is that to happen? A Populist administration (if it happens) sounds pretty interesting, what would its policies be on trade, immigration and civil rights?

Hello! This is my first post here ! I am German, english wasn't my native language , so please forgive me if I make any mistakes! The U.S was founded on HEAVY Roman and Greek influence. During its foundation, the age and power of monarchy was still strong if not universal. Conditions were...

Say Kerry somehow wins Ohio, and that results in him winning the 2004 election, how would the next presidential elections up to 2020 play out keeping in the mind that the Great Recession would still happen and so would the COVID-19 pandemic?

The United States of America has existed for over 200 years, and due to it being a Democracy, has had many possible candidates for its presidency. Your challenge is to make the most original idea for a president of the USA possible, I'll start with my own idea: Elbridge Gerry would become close...

Before the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, before the Every Vote Counts Amendment, and before the all too infamous 2001 Presidential election, there was the Bayh-Celler Amendment of 1969. The Bayh-Celler Amendment was probably the closest point in US history where the Electoral College...

How would I go about making alternate election maps in these styles?

The Wilderness Prologue: You reap what you sow The early 2010s were a time of great confusion in the political world. Many had written off the Republican party as doomed to a great amount of time in the Wilderness after the abject failure of the Bush Administration had driven the country off a...

Okay, so I'm planning on starting a... less ambitious timeline than the ones I've tried and miserably failed in the past. It's going to be called "The 21st Century - The Most Cursed Century in History". I intend to have a POD in the 1990s but I only want it to start getting really cursed in...

Suppose that the 1960 presidential election goes further down the wire, and the Kennedy-Johnson ticket holds a plurality of the electoral and popular vote, but falls short of the magic number of 268 electors. Harry Byrd and his unpledged electors make known their demands regarding segregation...

In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt came close to winning the Republican nomination for President but he lost to incumbent President William Howard Taft. What if Roosevelt had dethroned Taft and become the 1912 nominee? Who would be Roosevelt's running mate? According to biographer...

When Labour MP for Peterborough Fiona Onasanya was convicted for preventing the course of justice in retaliation to a motering offence in 2017, she was expelled from the Labour party. A recall petition was passed in her constituency, triggering a by-election to determine the new MP for...