AHC: POTUS Kwame Kilpatrick

Your challenge should you chose to accept it is to elect Kwame Kilpatrick President of the United States no later than 2012

Your POD cannot be prior to Jan 1 2002

Bonus points if at least half of his mayoral scandals still occur

Double bonus points if he goes strait from mayor of detroit to POTUS without a congressional job or becoming governor
 
Wins a second term as Detroit Mayor and in 2006 is selected as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan by Jennifer Granholm over John Cherry, they are elected and halfway through her second term Granholm is selected for the Supreme Court/Attorney General/Sec Homeland Security by President-elect McCain and she resigns leaving Kilpatrick as Governor. He is re-elected narrowly in 2010 and goes on to defeat McCain in 2012 as an insurgent.
 
:eek: This is absolutely, 100% impossible w/o alien intervention, time travel or a POD very, very, early in his life! The "no later then" and POD dates, along w/the "bonus points" presented make this already extremely unlikely occurance quite ludicrous.
 
Agreed on ASB w/ the POD. Just a couple of notes of interest thyough:
He'd be the youngest, beating TR by 100+ days.
He'd only be eligible in 2008 and 2012, as he'd still be 34 on inaguration day 2005.
 
:eek: This is absolutely, 100% impossible w/o alien intervention, time travel or a POD very, very, early in his life! The "no later then" and POD dates, along w/the "bonus points" presented make this already extremely unlikely occurance quite ludicrous.
Mind you, when Kilpatrick was first mayor everybody thought he was going to be The Next Big Thing out of Michigan. If that honeymoon period could be extended and Kilpatrick could move on from the mayorship before anything sticks to him...
 
Wins a second term as Detroit Mayor and in 2006 is selected as Lieutenant Governor of Michigan by Jennifer Granholm over John Cherry, they are elected and halfway through her second term Granholm is selected for the Supreme Court/Attorney General/Sec Homeland Security by President-elect McCain and she resigns leaving Kilpatrick as Governor. He is re-elected narrowly in 2010 and goes on to defeat McCain in 2012 as an insurgent.

Well, no way that even the 'Maverick' McCain would choose that disaster Granholm for anything, but the ASB are flowing freely in this thread anyway.

I think the only way it could be done is without any bonus points. Possibly Kilpatrick doesn't have any scandals or dead strippers, primaries Granholm in '06, and defeats her with the horrible Michigan economy hanging around her neck. McCain defeats Hillary in '08. Obama wins Gov. of Illinois in '10, (Game Change says that he hated the Senate.) and stays out of '12 to focus on his new job. Kilpatrick wins the Dem. primary when now very-disgruntled liberals choose him over Casey and Warner citing them to be "too moderate," and "too establishment," seeing that as the reason for the defeats in '04 and '08. Any Democrat will win the general election that year, though you could have McCain make and honor his one-term pledge to double down on that, if he still picks Palin.
 
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Mind you, when Kilpatrick was first mayor everybody thought he was going to be The Next Big Thing out of Michigan. If that honeymoon period could be extended and Kilpatrick could move on from the mayorship before anything sticks to him...

Not the presidency by 2012 but ...
In 2012, Detroit's uncorrupted & successful mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick defeats Senator Debbie Stabenow in the Democratic primary and narrowly eeks out a win over Republican Terri Lynn Land in the November general election. His victory is one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismil election for the Democrats, who lost control of the Senate, lost more ground in the House and came within a whisker of losing the White House. 2016 Presidential election - Bobby Jindal defeats Andrew Cuomo. Kilpatrick was re-elected to the Senate in 2018. In 2020 he was the Democratic VP nominee. The Kaine-Kilpatrick ticket lost. In 2024, Kilpatrick, this time at the head of the Democratic ticket, wins the presidential election, defeating Republican Matt Mead (electoral vote of 282-256).
 
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