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As the title states, give the USA the most amount of female Presidents - I have posted this in after 1900 for obvious reasons, but if somehow you can have one be pre-1900 that would for sure be allowed too (a successful Victoria Woodhull campaign, perhaps?) Regardless, Good Luck!

When Barack Obama appeared on the political scene he was tabula rasa. But basically he was a mirror a political chameleon, in whom every group saw what they wanted to see. After being elected he showed that he was a neoliberal. And after his presidency his true loyalties were displayed to all...

I know this is relatively recent history, but just to set the stage for this DBWI thought experiment I'll recap the past 20 or so years of US history. In 2000, after a nail-biting election campaign, Vice-President John Kerry defeated George W. Bush and became the 43rd American President. Kerry...

Have read of Lee Iacocca flirting with the idea of running for US President as the 1988 Democratic candidate in OTL. Would he have had a similar realistic chance of winning in 1992 as he did in 1988, especially in a scenario where Bill Clinton is caught up in scandal? Apart from advocating...

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...

What If the then recently elected US President H. Hoover would have been killed in Argentine? This could have happened because, according to the Argentine police, on December 11, 1928, (before the arrival of Hoover to the Argentine) in the framework of his month-long goodwill tour through...

After surviving an assassination attempt, RFK beat the odds and won the 1968 Democratic Presidential nomination. While Nixon had an early polling lead, Kennedy ultimately beat him by a narrow margin. What if Nixon had won instead? How might he have handled Vietnam and the problems of the 1970s...

In 1952, as Truman was completing his last full year in office, there was speculation that he would run for the US Senate once again. But Truman declined. Had Truman lost in 1948, and he were a former President in need of a job in 1952, might he have been more willing to run for the Senate...

In 1972, members of CREEP were caught breaking into the Watergate Hotel. Recognizing that the political fallout of a cover up would be worse than the break in itself, Nixon agreed to cooperate with legal authorities in the prosecution of the burglars. But what if Nixon had succumbed to paranoia...

Similar to another recent thread of mine on Truman and Korea, I'd like to ask about how Truman might have handled Vietnam. In 1950 Dewey gave extensive aid and military advisers to the French in order to help them reclaim their colonies in Indochina. This effort failed as Vietnam defeated France...

The Kennedy family produced two US Presidents, John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. Between the two of them, who was the best President?

After his narrow victory over Truman in 1948, President Dewey ordered a military build up and decided to keep US troops in South Korea. In 1950 there was a war scare when North Korea threatened to invade South Korea and expel the Americans from the peninsula with help from Communist China...

In 1812 the Federalists considered nominating Chief Justice John Marshall for President, but backed off when DeWitt Clinton ran as an anti-war Republican. They decided not to field a candidate that year. While Clinton got much Federalist support, with the rest going to Rufus King, he nonetheless...

Despite great reluctance, General Dwight Eisenhower accepted a draft for the Republican nomination in 1948. He defeated his GOP rivals at the party convention and went on to win the Presidency in a landslide. But what if Eisenhower had declined to run?

In the lead up to the 2004 election, Al Gore was widely expected to run for President once again. But he declined. What if Gore had run?

The POD is that instead of assassinating RFK, Sirhan Sirhan tries to kill President Johnson as he initially planned to do in OTL. However, the attempt is foiled by the Secret Service and Sirhan goes to jail. Kennedy continues his presidential campaign and comes close to the nomination, but he...

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...

In 1920, Hiram Johnson was offered the chance to be Harding’s running mate. However, he refused to accept the position and the position was ultimately given to Calvin Coolidge. Harding of course dies in 1923 making Coolidge president. But what if Johnson had accepted the offer and become...

In Yes We (Still) Can, Dan Pfeiffer indicates Daschle was far closer to running for president in 2004 than I had previously believed. Apparently, it was sort of like a Bill Clinton 1988 situation where he had everything ready, but just never hit 'go.' I didn't realize it had gotten that far...

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