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Here's the challenge, create a POD for the above scenario and then create your own timeline for someone else to create a POD for. I'll start.
The 2008 election was supposed to be an easy Republican victory. In the midst of a booming peacetime economy with the lowest unemployment since the 60s and Colin Powell, the first black and a highly popular president ending his two terms in office everything looked like smooth sailing. However Vice-President Lindsey Graham who faced only token opposition in the primary turned out to be an inept nominee who frequently made gaffes during the campaign.
On the Democratic side Harold Ford was considered an early favorite for the nomination, a southern moderate and someone who could bring blacks back to the Democrats who had been swinging towards Republicans due to President Powell, he also had been the 2004 VP nominee, running with the Liberal senator Paul Wellstone. They had been crushed in a landslide in a race many compared to Stevenson vs Eisenhower in 56, with a Liberal senator running against a popular non-ideological general president. Other candidates in the race included Senator John Kerry, Governor Grey Davis, Senator John Edwards, Governor Bill Richardson, NYC Mayor Fernando Ferrar and the little known Vermont govorner Howard Dean. Surprisingly Dean pulled off upset victories in Iowa and New Hampshire and ended up winning the nomination. He tapped Edwards for his running mate, and they surprised the political world by surging ahead of Vice-President Graham and Congressman Pence in the polls. It turned out that Graham's fetish for the confederate flag hurt him with blacks anyway, who overwealmingly returned to the Democrats. Graham was further hurt by the Tsugaru Straight incident in October of 2008 which many voters feared would lead to war with North Korea. So Govorner Howard Dean was elected the 47th President of the United States.
EV Totals
Dean/Edwards 384
Graham/Pence 154