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POD is Ross Perot begins his 1992 Presidential campaign with James Stockdale as his running mate by founding the Reform Party in 1990 as a protest to the beginning of negotiations for NAFTA . For the 1990 Congressional elections he has his party candidates stand all seats in the Congress and...

During the 1992 presidential debates, Ross Perot mentioned that should he be elected, he would only serve one term, saying and I quote: "If the American people send me up to do this job, I intend to be there one term. I do not intend to spend one minute of one day thinking about re-election."...

OTL, in 1988, Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts made a series of gaffes that led to him losing the 1988 Presidential Election to Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush of Texas. If those gaffes never happened or were slightly muted and Dukakis attacked Bush on Iran-Contra more, one...

I have started a number of timelines on this site that either grew too expansive or too narrow in focus and I felt I had to abandon eventually. My longest run was about 18 chapters, so I decided to make this timeline nice and simple. There will be 20 chapters, one for every year from the...

What if this in election scenario you have Democratic presidential nominee Jerry Brown who came in second place after Bill Clinton run as Independent? This might be a bit of unrealistic scenario but let's have this election the same with Bush, Clinton and Perot running but now with Jerry Brown...

In the event of a victory for Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential election, with a success in forming a government, what of his prospective cabinet? Given his independent run, surely Perot would go for a mix of Democrats and Republicans. Which candidates supported his political project and...

Mario Cuomo was a politician most well known for his liberal beliefs and oratory skills, most notably his "Tale of two cities" speech at the 1984 Democratic National Convention. Since then, he was considered a favorite for the 1988 and 1992 presidential nomination. However, both times, he...

Sky Over Virginia: February 11, 1990 Sitting in his cabin in Marine One, the President watched on television as Nelson Mandela walked out of prison triumphantly after so many years behind bars. While he never claimed to be progressive on issues like race, The President had come to dislike...

What if Michael Dukakis decided to run again in 1992? The situation for Bush 41 was already different than it was in '88. He already lost support among conservatives. Dukakis who in OTL retired from politics instead sees the opportunity and decides to take a one final shot in this election, by...

I know that Ross Perot was different candidate compared to Clinton or Bush in '92 election and his voters were most likely to vote for Clinton as they were to Bush. But what is most realistic way can we have H.W. Bush replacing Dan Quayle with Ross Perot as V.P. around May-June 1992 when Perot...

OK, so Rev. Jesse Fucking Jackson. The best thing to come out of South Carolina since Mt. Rushmore. One of the U.S.'s best fucking Presidents, and not just because he became America's first AA leader just 24 years after the Civil Rights Act was passed. He and VP Ted Kennedy (RIP) did some...

Suppose that a Democrat is elected President in 1988. (It doesn't have to be Dukakis. It could be Gore, Gephardt, and anyone else who failed in the primaries or didn't run IOTL). Does Ross Perot still run for President in 1992 (or 1996 for that matter)? If so, does he run as an independent or as...

If G.O.P decided that President Bush needed a new V.P candidate in order to win reelection (I'm not saying it would succeed) who would be Quayles successor as the Republican V.P candidate?

Hello everybody. On July 9, 2019, Ross Perot died at the age 89 after a battle with leukemia. Like many people, I mourned the maverick President we came close to having, and returned to A Giant Sucking Sound thread to both pay my respects, and revisit the world we might have lived in had Perot...

So with the recent passing of such a historic figure, I figured it was a fine time to revisit this topic. (@MaskedPickle ) With no PoDs prior to January 1992, how could the election have resulted in either an outright victory for Perot, or an Electoral College deadlock which in turn denied the...

As we may know, Ross Perot was very critical of NAFTA. When George H.W. Bush agreed to the proposal of it, many Democrats were against it. So what happens if Ross Perot decides to run as a Democrat in the primaries in order to gain more support by being in a prominent party during the national...

In the summer of 1992, independent businessman Ross Perot appeared to have a strong chance of winning the popular vote in that year's presidential election. He polled far ahead of Clinton, and even beat Bush in some polls before his support slipped and he dropped out of the race that July...

After intense deliberation in Albany, New York Governor Mario Cuomo made a surprise late entry into the 1992 Presidential race on December 20, 1991. Cuomo won the Democratic nomination following a heated primary battle, and ultimately defeated President George H.W. Bush by a margin of 52% to...

What if Ross Perot didn’t win the presidential election of 1996? He was elected as an independent and served from 1997-2005. He got us out of NAFTA, balances the budget, and reduced the national debt just to name a few of his accomplishments. He recently wrote in his Autobiography that he would...