AHC: Springsteen-Mellencamp 2012

Your challenge, should you wish to accept it, is to have a Democratic ticket for President featuring Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp for President and Vice President, respectively, by 2012. No restrictions on the POD, except...

Hard mode: both of them have to have their OTL music careers up until OTL 1992.
 
I started a thread about the Springsteen thing a month or two ago, so that can be how you have Springsteen. I actually think it was you who wrote a response to it that I thought was the most likely, but I could be remembering wrong.
 
The problem here for the hard mode is that Americans have to forgive both of them for decades of incredibly shitty music.
 
The problem here for the hard mode is that Americans have to forgive both of them for decades of incredibly shitty music.

Well, just ignore the mid-'80s and you can forgive Springsteen. And even that wasn't incredibly shitty. Songs like Glory Days sucked, but they didn't really suck.
 
Well, just ignore the mid-'80s and you can forgive Springsteen. And even that wasn't incredibly shitty. Songs like Glory Days sucked, but they didn't really suck.

I pretty much hate all of Springsteen's work with the exception of two songs (Born to Run and Tenth Avenue Freeze Up). Mellencamp has never made anything resembling good music.

Anyways, on to the actual challenge.

Springsteen is easy, New Jersey goddamn loves the man. Chris Christie even admitted that Bruce Springsteen has more power over New Jersey than he does. If he serves as Governor of New Jersey he can easily run for President.

John Mellencamp is a bit harder. He comes from Indiana so he'd probably run for Senate, that way he can get the money from outside the state needed to win a seat their with such liberal views. He could try to run in a different state. I think he lives in California now but he'd have to wait in line to get elected there.

My god this would lead to a hurricane of puns. "Springsteen and Mellancamp: Born to Run (for president)". "Looking out for your average Jack and Diane". etc etc.
 
Randy Newman as Secretary of State, Willie can do Food and Drugs.

"There's a man.....with a pen....singing a paper....he signed it...it's a treaty...to reduce...nuclear weapons."

"We really need to stop letting Secretary Newman carry his keyboard around everywhere."
 
I pretty much hate all of Springsteen's work with the exception of two songs (Born to Run and Tenth Avenue Freeze Up). Mellencamp has never made anything resembling good music.

Anyways, on to the actual challenge.

Springsteen is easy, New Jersey goddamn loves the man. Chris Christie even admitted that Bruce Springsteen has more power over New Jersey than he does. If he serves as Governor of New Jersey he can easily run for President.

John Mellencamp is a bit harder. He comes from Indiana so he'd probably run for Senate, that way he can get the money from outside the state needed to win a seat their with such liberal views. He could try to run in a different state. I think he lives in California now but he'd have to wait in line to get elected there.

My god this would lead to a hurricane of puns. "Springsteen and Mellancamp: Born to Run (for president)". "Looking out for your average Jack and Diane". etc etc.

Mellencamp's a pro-labor populist. If he can just focus on labor issues in a Democratic year, he can get elected. Like even '98, he can get elected to the Senate.

And Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out is an awesome song, but so's most stuff from Born To Run, Darkness on the Edge of Town, and The River. Those are the only three albums of Springsteen's that I would describe as great.
 
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