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Ever since 1968 one of the major goals of the Republican Party has been to repeal the 22nd Amendment. While it isn't the most pressing goal it is still up there. Republicans often cry that it's undemocratic or unfair while the Democrats argue that without it a Democrat would never win again...

Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain. - Richard Nixon. If there is ever a man who can claim the title of the one I am so endlessly fascinated by, it is Richard Nixon. The boy from Yorba Linda, the snappy...

in 2000 2008 and 2012 the Gop fielded three liberal candidates (conservative liberal not liberal liberal). This was because conservative political analysts at the time believed that appealing to conservative minorities (like Muslims, Mexicans, and jews) was the future. This contrasts with the...

Let's say the war is lost under the Republican's watch along with a financial panic that follows when it becomes clear the Union is going to lose. How could the Republican Party reform themselves to stay viable in elections? With the loss of its Southern base, how would've the Northern...

With a POD after the Civil War, make the Republicans stray from the business friendly orientation to labor rights

Obviously a little ASB but I was thinking about ways if the dust bowl was compacted to during Hoover years how much that would change things to the American political landscape and economy. But in particular how much more it would hurt republicans and if democrats would do even better in 1932...

Of course, Herbert Hoover could never have been elected President again, considering his very poor handling of the Great Depression during his Presidency. But suppose Calvin Coolidge had decided to run for a third term in 1928, with butterflies resulting in Ottinger defeating FDR in the race...

Hoover decides to not seek re-election, and the Republican primary is hotly contested. The candidate who wins is controversial, resulting in FDR winning all 48 states in 1932. The Democrats gain another 30 House seats in 1932, making the House composition 343-87-5. No 1937-1938 recession, so...

Obviously a successful democratic 1980s is a scenario that is interesting to me and a lot of people on the site. Realistically for it to happen the POD is a Republican whether it’s Ford or Reagan wins in 1976 and their term is a disaster where the economy is in the tank by election time ( for...

In 1852 and 1856, One potential candidate for the Whig/Republican Parties was New York Senator and future Secretary of State William H. Seward of New York. In 1852, he didn't run at all and in 1856, he was suggested for the Republicans but requested to have his name withdrawn, along with Ohio...

This is not a new concept by any means, but I have to say I've read all the threads I can on this topic and am still left wondering: in a timeline where the "Moral Majority" never really gained the foothold it did in GOP politics, would the party at the national level be as reflexively pro-life...

Since this is the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries I'll put the WI here. In 1896, decades after the end of Reconstruction, the state of North Carolina elected Daniel Lindsay Russell, a Republican, to the governorship by a margin of less than ten thousand votes. Russell, who had a majority in...

In 1990 David Duke ran for us senate in Louisiana losing to incumbent J Bennett Johnston by around 10%. What if Duke won, for whatever reason be it a scandal targetting Johnston, Better campaigning or something else? How would us politics and in particular The republican party Be affected by...

The two-party system has been a very constant facet of American politics; for the majority of US history and into the present day, the two main political parties have been the Democratic and Republican Parties. However, their political coalitions and party platforms have shifted many times, 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...

Hey all, before I begin, I just want to say that I sincerely hope everyone is staying safe and healthy in this time of crisis! So, Abraham Lincoln, before he became the 16th President of the United States of America was a self-taught lawyer and low-level Illinois politician serving in the State...

Samuel Tilden is best remembered as the Democratic candidate in the 1876 presidential election and for losing narrowly to Rutherford B Hayes. Prior to this, he had been a disciple of Martin Van Buren and was part of the 1848 free soil faction. Tilden returned to the Democrats while many free...

In 1855 Abraham Lincoln ran for the U.S. Senate from Illinois. At a time when Senators were elected by the legislature Lincoln initially did well in early balloting. But when it became clear he didn't have enough votes to win Lincoln bowed out in favor of anti-slavery Democrat Lyman Trumbull...

With the caveat that there were plenty doing similar work, what does the removal of the Pew Brothers change in the Republican Party and America? It’s a ton of money and organization applied during key times to shift the Republican Party that’s now gone… you’ve got Goldwater and the religious...

Had John McCain been the 2000 Republican presidential nominee, who would've been his likely picks for Vice-President?