AHC: President Steves Jobs

Your challenge, would you choose to accept it, is to make Steve Jobs President of the United States of America with a POD no earlier than January 1, 1985. He must be a Democrat, as in OTL. Bonus if Jobs did not lose control of Apple in 1985. Double bonus if Jobs is elected President before 2004.
 
Not possible. He's economically more Republican than George W. Bush. He'll be destroyed in the primaries as "China's Man in the White House"
 
Job's entire career was exploiting people's stupidity by making second rate hardware seem cooler than the higher quality equivalent. In politics, he'd have people calling him out for exploiting the ignorant. He'd have to fight a very bloody primary. They can also point out he cut all of Apple's charity donations.

Only Republicans think CEOs make good presidents

Not really. Warren Buffet and Bill Gates could do well running for President as a Democrat, especially if they've held another office before they ran.
 
Not a fun place to live..

Sculley gets into a car accident in January of 1985, instantly dying. Without him to organize the opposition, Jobs averts the coup in Apple. Due to butterflies George HW Bush unwittingly dies of a particularly bad flu strain during 1991, leading to Dan Quayle taking the reins. Beat Happening dominates the rock scene after one "Kurdt Kobain" (formerly of The Go Team) became a back up vocalist in the late '80s. This leads to the "twee" and indie rock scenes exploding, forming a visible counterculture that spans from roughly 1989-2004. Quayle wins re-election in '92 against a hapless Cuomo ticket thanks to the sympathy vote and much worse race relations. With the successful attack on the WTC in 1993 the US begins a War on Terror. Ultimately the US occupies Somalia, the Sudan and Iraq. In this climate the Democrats move considerably more towards neo-liberalism and "law and order," ultimately drafting Steve Jobs for California Governor and then President by 2000. He narrowly wins in 2000 despite significant liberal opposition and a not-minor riot outside of the DNC...
 

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Could Jobs even prove U.S. citizenship?

I know he was adopted, but beyond that...
 
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