The POD is Bill Clinton resigns over the Lewinsky scandal in 1998, making Al Gore the 43rd US President. How does Gore handle domestic and foreign policy? Can he work with the Republican Congress to get legislation passed? Would he win in 2000?
 
He's probably something of a lame duck, with a Congress conolled by the opposition and a public convinced that the Clinton administration he was a part of was bad enough to be worth resignation. Reelection in 2000 is unlikely.
 
I actually think as a sitting president he is re-elected handily (all he needs is to win Florida this time around). In retrospect, the Democrats sticking with Clinton when Gore was there with the same policies (and even more liberal) never made sense, since it brought the US George W., the Iraq War, and a decade more of the Clintons and their camp dominating the Democratic Party apparatus for the next decade plus (even partly when BO was President) until Hillary was defeated.
 
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He's probably something of a lame duck, with a Congress conolled by the opposition and a public convinced that the Clinton administration he was a part of was bad enough to be worth resignation. Reelection in 2000 is unlikely.

I hope, that, you understand, that, Bill Clinton was extremely popular at time.
 
I actually think as a sitting president he is re-elected handily (all he needs is to win Florida this time around). In retrospect, the Democrats sticking with Clinton when Gore was there with the same policies (and even more liberal) never made sense, since it brought the US George W., the Iraq War, and a decade more of the Clintons and their camp dominating the Democratic Party apparatus for the next decade (even partly when BO was President) until Hillary was defeated.

If the scandal was bad enough for Clinton to resign, it was much worse than OTL, on a level with Watergate. No Democrat is going to be viable in 2000 in this scenario.
 
If the scandal was bad enough for Clinton to resign, it was much worse than OTL, on a level with Watergate. No Democrat is going to be viable in 2000 in this scenario.

Ford almost won in 1976, and probably would have if he hadn't pardoned Nixon. Or if the economy had been good, as it was in 2000. So Gore would certainly be in contention in 2000.
 
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