AHC:Bob Dole Win

samcster94

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With a POD of the 1994 midterms, the 1996 election has to end with Bob Dole victorious. This election in OTL seemed one sided in favor of Bill. Perot's presence ate a few percent of the votes, but did not fundamentally change the race. Is there a way to do this without Bill being caught cheating on his wife????
 
If the economy hadn't improved by 1996, then Dole might've won albiet narrowly. The problem here is that the 1990s economy had already exited recession in 1991, when Bush was still President, and for the next 10 years the US enjoyed an economic boom. Clinton would need to fumble with the economy in 1995 in order for Dole to lose.
 
I always liked the idea of Quebec voting to secede in 1995 and Canada falling apart producing some problems in the U.S. that Clinton would be unable to overcome.
 
Quebec secedes, Canadian Goverment falls, the NAFTA negotiation is destroyed, Mexican economy fails and all this put American economy in recession while Clinton and Gingrich are fighting on Shutdown. An unpopular Clinton is hit harder by his corruption and sex scandals and Dole wins in a landslide. However his attempts to negotiate a new trade deal finds opposition from both new Canadian Prime Minister Preston Manning and Mexican President Cardenás.
 
Clinton doesn’t keep it in his pants during his first term and has a seedier affair than OTL Lewinsky. The October surprise: she’s pregnant. It’s Bill’s.
 
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