AHC/WI: Gore wins in '88

Tennessee Senator Al Gore, Jr. wins the presidency of the United States over Vice President George H.W. Bush in a epic landslide. He becomes the youngest president since John F. Kennedy. His wife, Tipper, and his family wows the nation. Gore, a strong conservative Democrat, won in a fashion that Democrats have never seen. Gore won overwhelmingly with blacks, Latinos, Asians, young people, and even some conservatives. Gore wins in a epic mandate to create jobs, protect the Second Amendment (He was a conservative Democrat in the '80s).

Gore picked fellow Southerner Sam Nunn, a all-Southern ticket in Atlanta, Georgia. How would a Gore presidency in 1988 look like for America heading into the 1990's? Would Nunn be president in 1996 or 2000?

http://articles.latimes.com/1987-04-11/news/mn-639_1_albert-gore
 
My question is, how does Gore win a landslide? Reagan was still relatively popular (although less popular than Clinton in 2000 and less popular than Ike in '60), the economy was still humming along nicely (for the most part), and there were no major international crisis. Is Iran Contra bigger TTL? Does the Stock Market Crash of '87 worse than OTL and bring about a recession?
 
My question is, how does Gore win a landslide? Reagan was still relatively popular (although less popular than Clinton in 2000 and less popular than Ike in '60), the economy was still humming along nicely (for the most part), and there were no major international crisis. Is Iran Contra bigger TTL? Does the Stock Market Crash of '87 worse than OTL and bring about a recession?

IOTL, Dukakis had a massive lead, but destroyed it using horrible campaigning. I'd expect Gore, a much smarter man, to run an effective campaign and retain a huge lead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo...s#United_States_presidential_election.2C_1988
 
My question is, how does Gore win a landslide? Reagan was still relatively popular (although less popular than Clinton in 2000 and less popular than Ike in '60), the economy was still humming along nicely (for the most part), and there were no major international crisis. Is Iran Contra bigger TTL? Does the Stock Market Crash of '87 worse than OTL and bring about a recession?

Gore won because his youth mesmerizes the nation, and Bush is seen as older, aloof. Gore's family melts America's hearts.
 
My question is, how does Gore win a landslide? Reagan was still relatively popular (although less popular than Clinton in 2000 and less popular than Ike in '60), the economy was still humming along nicely (for the most part), and there were no major international crisis. Is Iran Contra bigger TTL? Does the Stock Market Crash of '87 worse than OTL and bring about a recession?

Yes, if Gore was the nominee I think he would win, because Bush wasn't liked and his 'New Democrat' message could win over a broad coalition of voters. But I think it would be a close election, in my scenario I even had there be a recount in Ohio despite Gore winning the popular vote by 2%:D. I think Gore would win but no more than 350 EVs.
 
IOTL, Dukakis had a massive lead, but destroyed it using horrible campaigning. I'd expect Gore, a much smarter man, to run an effective campaign and retain a huge lead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histo...s#United_States_presidential_election.2C_1988

George W. Bush had double digit leads over Gore in the Spring of 2000, but then went on to lose the popular vote and only won the electoral by 537 votes, John Kerry also led George W. in the summer of 2004 then lost. Polls really don't start to matter, in my opinion, until September. By then in 1988, Duke's double digits were long gone.

Gore won because his youth mesmerizes the nation, and Bush is seen as older, aloof. Gore's family melts America's hearts.

JFK's youth mesmerized the nation, but he still didn't win a landslide, and Bush wasn't as hated as Nixon.

Yes, if Gore was the nominee I think he would win, because Bush wasn't liked and his 'New Democrat' message could win over a broad coalition of voters. But I think it would be a close election, in my scenario I even had there be a recount in Ohio despite Gore winning the popular vote by 2%:D. I think Gore would win but no more than 350 EVs.

While I agree it would be close, I still give the edge to Bush, so long as Reagan still campaigns for him. Gore could win, but with things as they were economically and with the cold war winding down (which had nothing to do with the Gipper), I give the incumbent party the edge.
 
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