AH Challenge: Get as a big majority in 1994 as possible?

What political points of divergence are needed to make the 1994 elections as bad for Clinton as they can possibly be without ASBs?
 
Get HIllarycare passed, have it fail, ie lead to decreased quality of service and greatly increased costs.

Hardline republicans start running ads with actual people killed by policy snafus.

And/or have that alleged rape victim speak out strongly, maybe after another comes forward.
 
It's Bill Clinton. Throw in more sex scandals.

As for policy stuff, maybe have the economy go back for a double-dip instead of recovering as well as it did. Clinton would get blamed for that. For the health care bill, it is harder to judge. The bill was very unpopular. One of the OTL reasons that they lost the election was because they pushed so hard on an unpopular bill that ultimately failed to pass anyway. So the message to the voters was two-fold: (a) they disagree with you on health care and (b) they aren't even organized enough to accomplish anything. That being said, I'm not sure whether being successful will help or hurt them. People could either react with "Oh great, they passed this monstrosity, now we hate them even more" or with "Well, they're wrong but at least they are competent, so maybe give them another shot." Either way, it would be too soon to see the effects of HillaryCare by the 1994 elections, so having it pass and then fail spectacularly doesn't seem like a viable option to me. Clinton could also go more extreme into gun control. That could alienate some voters.
 
Um, it just about WAS a worst-case scenario for Dems.

I suppose it could have been *somewhat* worse. On the Senate side, Democrats could have lost CA, VA, and NJ. (Maybe MA, but Ted Kennedy did end up winning by 17 points.)

They could probably have lost an addition 10-15 House seats.
 
If Ted Kennedy does not go negative on Romney's layoffs at Bain, then Romney wins, as the polls in mid-September predicted he would. Romney keeps it positive, as Ted put it in True Compass "tell Ted 'thank you', give him a gold watch and let him spend his dotage on Cape Cod." If Kennedy's opposition researchers don't do those interviews with laid-off Bain employees, Mitt Romney is the new junior Senator from Massachusetts.
 
Make the 1993 WTC Bombing more extensive. Have Clinton blame Iraq (IOTL James Woolsey did...). Then have Hussein Kamil defect and prove Clinton wrong (along with the FBI's own investigation doing the same...).
 
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