Brown-Wilder 1992

What if a ticket of Jerry Brown and Doug Wilder had been the Democratic ticket in 1992?

I picked Wilder because he was a popular governor and, given his desire for Jesse Jackson to be his VP, I think Brown would want an African-American running mate. It'd be a fairly transformational thing to have a Black VP in 1992, potentially setting the stage for a black president in 2000!


Brown in 1992 was considered simultaneously the most left-wing and right-wing candidate in the field. He wanted a flat tax, a VAT tax, term limits, and to abolish the department of education. He also wanted to raise the corporate tax rate. His tax plan was supply-side, made by Arthur Laffer himself. He was also anti-NAFTA and for Single-Payer.


Perot and Brown would be very very similar here. I could see Perot staying out of the race following his dropout and backing Brown, leading to a Brown landslide.
 
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What if a ticket of Jerry Brown and Doug Wilder had been the Democratic ticket in 1992?

I picked Wilder because he was a popular governor and, given his desire for Jesse Jackson to be his VP, I think Brown would want an African-American running mate. It'd be a fairly transformational thing to have a Black VP in 1992, potentially setting the stage for a black president in 2000!


Brown in 1992 was considered simultaneously the most left-wing and right-wing candidate in the field. He wanted a flat tax, a VAT tax, term limits, and to abolish the department of education. He also wanted to raise the corporate tax rate. His tax plan was supply-side, made by Arthur Laffer himself. He was also anti-NAFTA and for Single-Payer.


Perot and Brown would be very very similar here. I could see Perot staying out of the race following his dropout and backing Brown, leading to a Brown landslide.
Does the Rep. win in 1994 still happen on schedule?
 
What if a ticket of Jerry Brown and Doug Wilder had been the Democratic ticket in 1992?...

They would have lost and lost badly to Bush. Brown ran, honestly, something of a nutty campaign in 1992 and America wasn't yet ready for a black candidate on a major party ticket. Brown made a political comeback by focusing on the nuts and bolts of governing and he has been excellent at it. But the perception of him in 1992 was still more "Moonbeam" than competent technocrat. He'd be crushed.
 
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