AHC: Senator Hunter S. Thompson

This just popped into my head while reading this post - is there any way to get HST into the Senate? I'd assume that the PoD could be a failure for the Democrats and Republicans to make a deal to prevent him being elected sheriff of Aspen, which could provoke some national interest and convince him that a statewide political campaign could work out.

Is there any way he could have, say, replaced Gary Hart by winning in 1974? Or would this require a Fear, Loathing and Gumbo style breakdown of political normality?
 
Let him win his political run for Sheriff of Aspen and MAYBE, you have a shot.
I honestly doubt though he would be interested in a serious political career.
 
Thompson, so far as I know, had no interest in any of that. It certainly doesn't seem like him at all. Maybe as a lark to just see if it was possible.
 
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