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Apologies if this has been done before, the search function is never perfect.

Let's put the POD vaguely in election season for the 2008 presidential race (which of course runs back to at least 2007) but I want a butterfly net over the election results, so Obama and the OTL 111th Congress are the same as of the start of the 2009 session (so Franken is not yet seated, Kennedy's going to die soon).

The challenge is to find a POD that butterflies the strategy of total obstruction employed by the GOP during Obama's tenure. The challenge is NOT to find a way to keep a majority of 60+ Democrats in the senate to avoid the Republicans, it's to get the Republicans to try something else.

I don't want to say bonus points, but let's say that anything that sounds like "Democrats move to the center" gets the klaxon and the flashing screen from QI.
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