2004 GOP Primaries if Gore Had Beaten Bush

If Gore wins, I think you see more of a SoCon, Economically Moderate GOP as the result.

But if the financial crisis still happens, as it certainly would at some point in the late 2000s, you'd still see right wing populist anger channeled through the Tea Party either during McCain's second term or after his one term. Instead of Bush, the Republican base would view McCain as the embodiment of the "establishment" and it's failures. Unfortunately 2004 is far too late to permanently push the GOP in a more moderate direction, that ship sailed in 1980.
 
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