AHC: Get a US President's approval ratings as low as Francois Hollande.

Like people said, an independent with no strong partisan backing who'd be easily attacked by both sides, like Jesse Ventura.

Except why not go for someone who got even closer to power: President Ross Perot.
 

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George McGovern, out of step with most of the country and unpopular in his own party, but viable in a potential Watergate Blows Up Early scenario would probably face a major support crunch and could theoretically hit the bottom in 1976 when facing Stagflation after clashing with most Democrats about the sort of reform he would have pushed.
 
Actually the reference to Gerald Ford remind's me of Brazil's current President, Michael Temer.

Searching the internet, this article probably gives the most compressive summary of the situation. Its dated from May 27th when Temer's approval rating was under 10%, but things haven't gotten better since and the approval rating is currently lower:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/...fight-political-survival-170527085908700.html

Here is a Time article that is relevant to the subject, though it gets in a gratuitous dig at Donald Trump, whose approval ratings are in the high 30s and who has enough partisans that they are very unlikely ever to drop below the mid-20s:

http://time.com/4785127/michael-temer-nicolas-maduro-donald-trump/

One thing with the Temer example is that Brazil's constitution is actually very similar to that of the United States. So you could get fundamentally a similar situation in American politics, a President getting impeached and removed and it turns out his or her successor is guilty of everything the former President was accused of and more.

This is getting a bit chat-like, so the closest the US came to that situation would have been if Nixon had been succeeded by Agnew, and then the OTL revelations broke over Agnew. Another possibility is the country winding up with Carl Albert as (acting?) President, the Presidential Succession Act has never been tested before and apparently Agnew was a bit past it at the time of Watergate.
 
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