Alternate US Presidential Running Mates

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If Henry Wallace's VP nomination had been shot down in '40, it's very likely FDR would've declined re-nomination, and the Democratic ticket that year would've been Cordell Hull and William B. Bankhead.
 
If Henry Wallace's VP nomination had been shot down in '40, it's very likely FDR would've declined re-nomination, and the Democratic ticket that year would've been Cordell Hull and William B. Bankhead.

I don't see an all Southern ticket before 1992. I also don't see FDR turning down a chance for a third term. pPaul V McNutt got a groundswell of support on the convention floor. That means Preesident McNutt1945. - 1953. he does everything Truman did, except integrating the military earlier.

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In 1992 Bill Clinton selects Bob Kerrey (D) of Nebraska to be his running mate. Governor Ben Nelson of Nebraska selects Bill Hoppner to be the new Senator. Clinton and Kerrey win in 92 and 96 Not much changes. Nebraska is a more moderate state in the 90's. Home town pride helps Kerrey win a close race against Junior Bush in 00. Nebraska a normal red state goes blue for Kerrey. The nonsense of Florida happens but does not matter. Kerrey being a lot smarter than Bush realizes that Bin Laden is a threat. 9-11 never happens, the terrorists are arrested before they can strike. Kerrey being a former navy seal and MOH winner realizes that sending a HUGE army to the middle east is not the way to do things. He sends in the special forces who along with the help of the CIA take out Bin Laden in late 2003. The leader of Iraq Saadam is murdered in a coup set up by the CIA and another strong arm leader takes over. Yet this leader sees the value of being friendly with the USA and normal realtions are started on a trial basics. The tax rates stay the same and their is not massive waste in 2 wars so Americas debt keeps going down.
 
(I believe) George W. Bush's #1 choice was George Pataki, that would have change quite a bit.

Bush himself implies it was Danforth and official sources say he also heavily considered Liddy Dole. Pataki, being pro-choice, probably never gets that far in the vetting process.
 
If Henry Wallace's VP nomination had been shot down in '40, it's very likely FDR would've declined re-nomination, and the Democratic ticket that year would've been Cordell Hull and William B. Bankhead.

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Two questions:

1. WWII-era American politics isn't my specialty; for those who it is, is Hull really as much of a Nazi sympathizer as he's generally portrayed?

2. Hull is from Tennessee. Would his VP choice really have been Bankhead -- a sickly, 66-year-old from Alabama? IOTL, Bankhead died in Sept. of 1940; it's hard to imagine he'd live longer on the campaign trail.
 
In 1992 Bill Clinton selects Bob Kerrey (D) of Nebraska to be his running mate. Governor Ben Nelson of Nebraska selects Bill Hoppner to be the new Senator. Clinton and Kerrey win in 92 and 96 Not much changes. Nebraska is a more moderate state in the 90's. Home town pride helps Kerrey win a close race against Junior Bush in 00. Nebraska a normal red state goes blue for Kerrey. The nonsense of Florida happens but does not matter. Kerrey being a lot smarter than Bush realizes that Bin Laden is a threat. 9-11 never happens, the terrorists are arrested before they can strike. Kerrey being a former navy seal and MOH winner realizes that sending a HUGE army to the middle east is not the way to do things. He sends in the special forces who along with the help of the CIA take out Bin Laden in late 2003. The leader of Iraq Saadam is murdered in a coup set up by the CIA and another strong arm leader takes over. Yet this leader sees the value of being friendly with the USA and normal realtions are started on a trial basics. The tax rates stay the same and their is not massive waste in 2 wars so Americas debt keeps going down.

A little bit of a wank but alt Clinton VPs are a bit more interesting to me than Gore '00 over and over.

Biden, Dick Gephardt, Mario Cuomo, Indiana Representative Lee H. Hamilton, Pennsylvania Senator Harris Wofford, Florida Senator Bob Graham, and Massachusetts Senator John Kerry were all mentioned. Jerry Brown or Paul Tsongas could be in there too.

A good part of this is no Tipper Gore and her silly cultural wars.
 
I have to brag right now. aAs a Clinton volunteer in 1992, I got to talk to the future president. He did not like Jerry Brown. I don't see Brown as potential running mate.
 
I'd made a thread earlier in which Ford picked George Bush to be his VP after he became president, instead of Rockefeller. Bush had been number 2, and unlike Rockefeller, he might have been able to survive the 1976 convention and remain as the running mate.

Otherwise, could Bob Graham have been a potential running mate for either Gore or Kerry? Being from Florida could help the ticket win. Graham showed interest in running for higher office through his brief 2004 presidential run, so its possible he would want to run as VP. He was on Gore's shortlist too, and speculated about for Kerry, so it looks like a good possibility that could seriously alter American electoral history.
 
I'd made a thread earlier in which Ford picked George Bush to be his VP after he became president, instead of Rockefeller. Bush had been number 2, and unlike Rockefeller, he might have been able to survive the 1976 convention and remain as the running mate.
Your right in that Rockefeller, if he wanted to be Vice President again, wouldn't have survived the volatile conditions present at the Republican Convention that year. However, in the Fall of 1975 he had already declared he had no interest in running again for the Vice Presidency, with his health being the major concern.

If it was the Presidency that would be a different story, but he would only run if Gerald Ford stood out of the race himself, and the likely result of that would be Reagan crushing him in the primaries, picking a conservative as his running-mate (maybe James Buckley).

 
:eek:

Two questions:

1. WWII-era American politics isn't my specialty; for those who it is, is Hull really as much of a Nazi sympathizer as he's generally portrayed?

2. Hull is from Tennessee. Would his VP choice really have been Bankhead -- a sickly, 66-year-old from Alabama? IOTL, Bankhead died in Sept. of 1940; it's hard to imagine he'd live longer on the campaign trail.

I'm just a simple lad with a Bachelor's in History from a British university but I have literally never heard this, and if it were true I find it unlikely that FDR would have kept him at State either before or during the war against, er, the Nazis.
 
I think Reagan was too pragmatic to choose someone like Buckley, who was running for reelection to Senate. Both of the running mates he named were to his left.
 
Your right in that Rockefeller, if he wanted to be Vice President again, wouldn't have survived the volatile conditions present at the Republican Convention that year. However, in the Fall of 1975 he had already declared he had no interest in running again for the Vice Presidency, with his health being the major concern.
But would Bush have been able to survive the convention as Ford's running mate?
 
If Bush had been vice president, he would have been in a better position in the 1980 primaries. He would have been able to raise more money. He would have been able to pay half of the one on one debate with Reagan. t There would not have been the I paid for this microphone moment.
 
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