presidential election

I wanted to explore this post from 2018 more deeply, as I found it fascinating. The last comment describes a scenario where Tom McCall, a popular Oregon governor, wins the presidential election in 1976 as an independent. I will quote some of the info from the OP and the last comment on the post...

Your challenge is to concoct a scenario in which a political family (Roosevelt, Kennedy, Bush, etc.) has the most individuals hold the oval office. My personal best bets would be the Roosevelts or Kennedys, which is why I've posted this in post-1900, but earlier is definately allowed too! Good...

No women ran for President of the United States among the two major parties in the 1980s. I'm wondering which ones could have done that, and if they would have been successful in winning the nomination of their party and the general election. So, when I searched for women holding political...

Having guided the nation through the Great Depression and led it to the cusp of victory during World War Two, Franklin D. Roosevelt had--time and again--proven himself as an insurmountable candidate, having won all four times that he ran for office and building a legacy as one of America's most...

The US famously really only has two parties that matter the most in politics, and that’s the Democrats and Republicans. But in the last 4 years or so, we’ve really seen diverging ideas within those political parties. Many of these ideologies would have their own parties if they weren’t part in...

1972 was a massive election for Republicans. They carried every state in the presidential election except for Massachusetts and the District of Columbia. From Washington to Maine, and Florida to California, nearly every state voted for Richard Nixon. Yet even during this time, Democrats still...

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...

Robert Kennedy came extremely close to death while campaigning for President in 1968. As he celebrated his recent primary victory in the ballroom of the Ambassador Hotel, a young Palestinian nationalist named Sirhan Sirhan pulled a gun on him. Sirhan managed to get a few shots off, but...

In 1991, Al Gore was one of many leading Democrats to pull himself out of the presidential race thinking that George H.W. Bush was a shoe-in for re-election. Further, a car accident that nearly killed his son in 1989 persuaded Gore to take a break from national politics in order to focus on...

With a POD of January 1, 2000 have a President win at least 375 electoral votes.

During the Progressive era, many politicians began to feel the need for a national primary system. Such a system would involve holding all presidential primaries on the same day - as opposed to the current system where the primaries and caucuses are held over a period of many months. In 1915...

Supposing that RFK had lived but gone on to lose the Democratic nomination to Hubert Humphrey in 1968, he would have been a major contender for 1972 provided that Nixon still wins in '68. (Some might argue that if RFK had lived to endorse and possibly campaign for HHH then the Dems would have...

The 2004 election between Bush and Kerry was extremely close. All Kerry had to do was win Ohio and he would have been President. Supposing that Gore pulls through in 2000, leads the country through 9/11 and the Afghanistan War, he would be facing the same difficult reelection campaign as Dubya...

I remember seeing this video on YouTube: This video had a comment on it that went something like “man this would have been a dream election.” That comment made me wonder, what if Reagan had won the Repub. nomination in 1968, and Kennedy had survived his assassination and won the Dem...

From the authors that brought you You Gotta Have Hart and Blue Skies in Camelot, comes.... this. What is this, exactly? The best way to explain it is to give a brief background on how it came to be. The date was December 17th, 2017. I was in a period of writer's block, so in my infinite...

Altough I am not an American, as an outsider I consider that the best electoral system for electing the President, taking into account the state's power in the federal system as well as the will of as many voters as possible is an Electoral College formed by electors atributted by proportional...

IOTL, Herman Cain ran for President in both the 2000 and 2012 Elections. His campaigns never saw great success, and he withdrew from the Republican primaries in both cases. Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have Cain become President at some point. Whether he wins one of the...

“All of us must try to hold ourselves to the very highest standards of integrity and ethics, and soundness of judgment... ” January 27th, 1987 “A nation’s future is shaped in its schools and halls of learning. When we neglect investment in our youth, we neglect investment in our future...

This is my first thread. If you've got questions, comments, or concerns, shoot! Vice-President Al Gore was the front runner for the Democratic primaries of 2000, and he unsurprisingly won every single contest. The Republican primaries also were over fairly quickly. Following a landslide McCain...

Suppose for a moment that things go better for the Western Allies with WWII ending roughly a year earlier with Japan surrendering in August or September of 1944. Now this is after the Democratic and Republican Party conventions so it would be the same Roosevelt vs. Dewey competition as in our...