AHC: Make Obama lose the ‘08 election to McCain.

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Some ideas:

1. McCain comes out against the bailouts/ TARP. I'm surprised no one has brought that possibility up. Its a fascinating POD.

It hasn't been discussed here since way back in...February 2018! And I still say what I did then: "No, he couldn't have stopped it, and if he somehow could, the economy would collapse even faster, making his election even more unlikely." https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...ut-against-tarp-in-2008.437061/#post-16521760

I then quoted an earlier post of mine:

"Remember that at first the House rejected the bailout bill--*then the Dow lost 777 points in one day.* http://www.cnbc.com/id/26945972 After that, there was no doubt it would pass. If they rejected it a second time the market would go down still further until the bill did pass.

"I once compared the situation with Trotsky's justification for initially opposing Brest-Litovsk. True, he said, doing so led to Germany driving deeper into Russia and making the terms of peace even harsher. But it was necessary to reject it at first just to show the Russian people how disastrous rejection would be and how helpless Russia would be if it stayed in the war; without this demonstration the Bolsheviks would have been denounced as German agents. (Actually, Lenin and his party *had* gotten money from the Germans, but that's another story.) In September 2008, tanking stocks had the same effect German tanks had in 1918: they showed that resistance was futile.

"One reason the bailout was inevitable is that hatred of banks and Wall Street and bailouts was *not* the predominant popular emotion in September 2008. That mostly came later, after the situation had stabilized somewhat. In September 2008 the predominant public emotion was simply *fear.*" https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...kruptcy-causes-collapse.351494/#post-10641388
 
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