Bicentennial Man: Ford '76 and Beyond

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Knightmare

Knightmare

TheBalkanizer said:
They're fighting over ashes. No way is a R candidate gonna win in TTL's 1980. This election is going to be a landslide for better or worse.
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Worse, whoever comes out ahead in the shark pool that's the current primary is gonna be hard to win over supporters.

Rumsfeld, for instance, is gonna have to really double down on moderating his tone and speech, which is likely impossible.

Any Moderates are gonna have a right based opposition the entire way, and for good measure, still be tarred with the image of Reagan. Who really doesn't have much to spare.
 
traveller76

traveller76

KingSweden24 said:
The Return of the Gandhis​
The thumping victory placed her son Sanjay in a key role as an eminence grise and clear successor; over the next months, Sanjay purged state party officials to appoint a network of friends, proteges and cronies in various local bureaucracies, courts, police divisions and state party organizing committees. His consolidation was swift; by the end of 1980, he personally controlled the biggest state affiliates of Congress as well as close to half of the Congress majority in the Lok Sabha and much of the Indian security and legal establishment and his mother was said to effectively be in a position of pseudo-retirement or figurehead-status as her son aggressively purged their intraparty enemies behind the scenes...
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This will not end well.
 

mr1940s

I am so curious how Connolley does in 1980. In OTL his campaign was top heavy, inefficient and expensive. He made several missteps on the Middle East and was seen as too crooked. I have doubts that the Republican voters of 1980 would be more willing to buy the "politically motivated indictment" spin than in OTL.
 

KingSweden24

mr1940s said:
I am so curious how Connolley does in 1980. In OTL his campaign was top heavy, inefficient and expensive. He made several missteps on the Middle East and was seen as too crooked. I have doubts that the Republican voters of 1980 would be more willing to buy the "politically motivated indictment" spin than in OTL.
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Connally still has more or less all those same flaws; White’s skillset and the keys to Strom’s operation are the big differences for him here. So maybe a hair less inefficient?
 
Sergeant Foley

Sergeant Foley

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@KingSweden24 Some questions:
1.) Does Humphrey still pass away on January 14, 1978 in this timeline like he did in real life?

2.) Does President Ford have the US Olympic Team boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow?

3.) What's going on in Brazil? I know the military dictatorship is rotating the Presidency down there?

4.) Hope to see a chapter on Stroessner of Paraguay. How did he & Ford get along in terms of US-Paraguayan relations?

5.) Does Elvis Presley still die under mysterious circumstances?
 
Sergeant Foley

Sergeant Foley

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KingSweden24 said:
Not UN feasible if they can avoid the tie with Houston
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In the link I sent you a few days ago, the Longhorns will have to avoid that tie with Houston & avoid choking with their schedule.

On Akers: he's got huge shoes to fill with the legendary Darrell K. Royal, who retired after the 1976 season.
 

KingSweden24

Sergeant Foley said:
@KingSweden24 Some questions:
1.) Does Humphrey still pass away on January 14, 1978 in this timeline like he did in real life?

2.) Does President Ford have the US Olympic Team boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow?

3.) What's going on in Brazil? I know the military dictatorship is rotating the Presidency down there?

4.) Hope to see a chapter on Stroessner of Paraguay. How did he & Ford get along in terms of US-Paraguayan relations?

5.) Does Elvis Presley still die under mysterious circumstances?
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Humphrey died on schedule, Presley is alive (refer to pop culture entry)
 

Nazi Space Spy

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Sergeant Foley said:
@KingSweden24 Some questions:
1.) Does Humphrey still pass away on January 14, 1978 in this timeline like he did in real life?

2.) Does President Ford have the US Olympic Team boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow?

3.) What's going on in Brazil? I know the military dictatorship is rotating the Presidency down there?

4.) Hope to see a chapter on Stroessner of Paraguay. How did he & Ford get along in terms of US-Paraguayan relations?

5.) Does Elvis Presley still die under mysterious circumstances?
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I can’t imagine Stroessner-Ford relations warranting an entire update.
 
Sergeant Foley

Sergeant Foley

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@KingSweden24 Speaking of Ford's second inauguration on January 20, 1977: I'm assuming both President Ford & VP Dole both escorted Rocky & his wife, Happy to the West Front of the US Capitol, walking the long way to Marine Two? Assuming Rocky got a 19 Cannon Salute during departure honors at Andrews AFB before getting aboard Air Force Two, which took the Rockefeller's back home to NY St.
1977-01-20 The Rockefeller's waving goodbye as they aboard Marine One.jpg
 
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