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1972: Incumbert Robert R. Casey decides to retire to challenge John Tower for his US Senate Texas seat. Ron Paul duly rides Nixon's presidential coattails to flip TX-22 for the GOP. 1976: Reagan successfully challenges POTUS Ford for the GOP nomination and narrowly loses in November to Carter...

Following this quote in Polchat I skimmed Marx's Wiki page and found this quote from Irving Berlin I do not, and will not claim to be an expert on any of the Marx's lives, although I do enjoy their films, so here's the challenge, with a POD that still includes the making of Duck Soup in it's...

Many of us have seen this image make the rounds on Twitter and Reddit (where I sourced) recently and the various threads which have been made because of it (yes, this is another thread based on the picture, now hush): However, one of these proposed amendments has caught my eye: the 1878...

The great depression somehow gets worse than it already was, then this joker runs in 1932 convincing the country that only strong leadership can fix the economy. What policies can he push within the confines of the constitution, would he use military aggression to advance American interests, how...

Winning in a landslide of 486 electoral votes and 61.1% of the popular vote, President Lyndon Johnson's 1964 victory currently holds the record for the largest share of the popular vote won by a modern president--a tally that narrowly exceeded FDR's 1936 victory over Alf Landon, and was only...

For a scenario I'm working on, I need your help with a couple of points. Here is the basic premise: The assassination attempt on the life of US President John F Kennedy on 22 November 1963 fails, only wounding him and sending him into a coma for a couple of days. After regaining...

What if Ronald Reagan convinced Gerald Ford to be his running mate ? And Ford is Vice President until the March 30, 1981. John Hinckley Jr. assassinate Ronald Reagan in front of the Washington Hilton hotel. Now how look that from the constitutional site Gerald Ford has the Right to become...

One peculiar fact about USA presidents is that all of them from Woodrow Wilson on in have sported clean-shaved faces. The closest call the White House got in regards to a bearded president post-WW2 was GOP nominee Thomas Dewey in 1948, although he mostly had a short, unimpressive stache. So, the...

Let's assume the following scenario: The assassination of John F Kennedy in 1963 fails and he survives. However, because of the traumatic experience (coupled with his already deteriorated health prior to the assassination), JFK decides to not seek reelection in 1964 and endorses his brother...

So, aparentely William Dudley Pelley, the leader of the american silvershirts OTL did had some public support on the state of Washington with some few thousands attending his speeches, a negligible amount of people if comparated to the whole US population. Now, what if Pelley wasn't a fascist...

Exactly what it says up there. Is it possible to have a father and son both become president but have the son’s term occur first? Who’d most likely be able to fulfill this criteria?

This is something I came up with a short and quick TL (with little detail but lots of fun bits). Inspired by a post I can no longer find where every administration got a mirror version of itself, I challenged myself to make a TL outline where every person who got an electoral vote for President...

Made after a now closed thread of the same name. The challenge is fairly self explanatory. Have Johnny Cash be POTUS, preferably after he has already started his music career.

If the U.S. Constitution had established two heads of state, two consuls in Roman Republican fashion, instead of a singular President, then how would it effect U.S. history?

OK, sorry for the overly long title, and now the challenge: Benjamin Harrison must be considered the best president of the US in the 19th century, the PoD is december 31 of 1799, and the only requeriment is that he get's elected around the same time as OTL Begin

In a recent DBWI I created the character of Daniel Blaine Williams I as the hero of the ARW who later helped set up the Triune Executive Office of the United States. Assuming such an office is created I have some queries: Roles What exactly would it be called? Are the roles of the office...

Assuming LBJ does not run in 1968 due to health concerns [1], without the Vietnam War, who will Humphrey pick as his VP? Let's say RFK is alive, kicking, and is still in the poltical arena, but Humphrey still wins the Democratic nomination and wins in November that year[2]...

As we all know for almost 30 years US Presidents come from two families: Clinton and Bush. With Jeb replacing Hillary in the White House earlier this year, there are already talks of Chelsea run in 2020 or 2024. Your task is to make only one person from each family reach Oval Office with POD in...

Note: The situation arose in an ASB TL, but since nothing is ASB about this premise, I decided to post the question here. Premise: On 17 January 1945, Franklin Delano Roosevelt died of a ruptured aneurysm. As this happened after he won the 1944 Presidential Election but after his (and Harry...

With a PoD no earlier than 1990, can Hillary Clinton become the President of the United States of America? In OTL, of course, she attempted to become President a few times but failed to do so; what is the best POD to enable her to have a successful Presidential run? Bonus points if she ends up...